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MIND THE TRANSFORMER 

The 
NEW PSYCHOLOGY COMPLETE 



By 
A. A. LINDSAY, M. D. 



Author of 

"MIND THE BUILDER" 
"SCIENTIFIC PRA YER" 

"THE TYRANNY OF LOVE" 

"PURE--PRECIOUS--PRICELESS" 

"THE WAYSIDE AND THE GOAL' 



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LINDSAY PUBLISHING COMPANY 

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Copyright by A. A. LINDSAY, M. D. 
1911 



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CONTENTS 

Principles of Healing 13 

Cell Structure of the Body 19 

Mind in the Cells 27 

Practical Psycho-Therapeutics 35 

Cases and Their Treatment 43 

Morphine Habit Treated 57 

Hypnosis, Where and How to Use It 61 

The Suggestible States 69 

Suggestion in Reforming 79 

Science of Telepathy 87 

Evil Thought Transference 95 

Psychic Powers 103 

Chemistry of Emotions 113 

Chemistry and Psychology of Love 125 

The Third Degree 135 

The Measure of a Man 145 



FOREWORD 

Where are we to begin and end our study of 
mind when we purpose making one volume com- 
plete upon the subject of psychology? I think 
we will begin at making a key and stop when 
we have fitted it to the lock which opens the 
doors to the hidden treasures in every man's 
body, mind and soul. Incidental to such a crea- 
tion we will find our way into the intricacies of 
mind as it exhibits its powers and attributes in 
manifold incorporations besides man. 

My student need not fear that he will be led 
into fields of mysticism or speculation, nor even 
idealism of the phantastic sort. Practical science 
is the only science worth studying, and so it is 
with idealism. It must have touch with the daily 
practices of the progressive man to warrant our 
attention. 

Some day the race will arrive at the stage of 
development where it needs to give thought only 
to methods of growth, unfoldment, and expres- 
sion. At present we have to think of ways to 
reclaim health and form over all of the phases 
of our being. This generation, at least, will 
need all of my psychology, for through its prin- 

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ciples, and through them only, can transforma- 
tion and growth be attained. 

A friend hung up in my office a picture of 
two little negro boys under a ragged umbrella. 
One was saying to the other these words : 
"Wishin' for de rain storm when the drout comes 

round, 
Wonder'n why de sunshine keeps a dryin' out de 

ground. 
Better stop dis kickn', doesn't help a bit; 
Kind ob weader wot you has is all youse gwine 
ter git." 

So it matters not how much we may wish it, 
we cannot return to our place of moulding, to 
take a better form, for the form and whatever 
we are, is all we are going to get to start with. 

To the earnest and unprejudiced seeker, our 
lessons are simple, and the results certain. The 
way has been more than blazed — you will find 
this book, as a broad road, with bright lights 
all the way. At the destination there is a beauti- 
ful city that shines constantly in a blaze of glory. 
Simple lessons merging into simple lessons, yet 
disclosing most technical truths, lead ultimately 
to a knowledge that makes life seem the privi- 
lege that it is and proves from first to last that 
the purpose of a man's mundane life is to build 
an individuality. 



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You will find that our practical psychology- 
extends to everything that an individual is or 
does; there is no phase of the subject as likely 
to attract the attention of each one as that of 
healing. 

Because the body is uncomfortable,, is giving 
evidence of disorders, every one seeks remedial 
power. Mind does not so readily perceive its 
own ailments as it does those things that go 
wrong in the body, therefore relief to the mind, 
as such, is not sought in remedies. 

How to get well, is the problem that John 
Wesley said began as soon as man offended his 
Creator. "Rebelling against the sovereign of 
all, seeds of pain and sickness were sown in the 
body ; the sun and moon shed unwholesome in- 
fluence from above ; the earth exhaled poisonous 
damps from below." 

Every one has the health problem to deal with, 
and, although few of us these days think disease 
is forced upon us by an angry Deity, all would 
like to be in the favor of a supreme power that 
can release us from disease. 

This power has never lost its efficacy, but in 
some way it seems faithful to all laws, and needs 
to be recognized by man, consciously. Healing, 
if it takes place under any circumstances, must 

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be a religious, not a chemical or other physical 
process primarily. This is proved even when 
chemicals are used and cure follows. 

The thousand methods, where no material 
thing was used but a cure followed, show the 
religious element in healing, but no plainer than 
where chemistry was applied. There is no such 
thing, and never was any such thing, as healing 
except through a religious applied power. One 
can apply that religious power and be cured with- 
out drugs, but no one can insinuate into, or in 
any way give material agents to the exclusion 
of a supreme power that is intelligent. 

"Why say healing is a religious practice ? Does 
that mean theological, too ?" No, I do not mean 
theological. Theological signifies a definite be- 
lief concerning a Creative Intelligence, in the 
universe. 

"Religious healing ,, signifies that spirit, not 
matter, must heal ; that it does heal because there 
is no potency in matter except as mind or spirit 
applies it. Therefore, if by a force of any sort 
a man's choice of methods of healing is with- 
held from him, his religious privileges are in- 
terfered with. 



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CHAPTER I. 
Principles of Healing 

Suggestion in healing literally means that the 
intelligence of that department of mind that 
controls the body is caused to obey a suggestion 
that is given to it to create harmonies, removing 
inharmonies. 

Practically, psychology shows distinctly how 
complete the controlling power is and teaches 
the method of getting a suggestion to direct 
this power. That is the department of sug- 
gestive therapeutics. Our department of histol- 
ogy and the exhibit of the evolution from the 
primary cell, which with its successors are all 
intelligent, with mind the designer, mind the 
builder and mind the master, shows that man 
is possessed of a department of mind that con- 
trols hif body. This mind remains present and 
supreme in its potency as long as life in the 
body exists. We will not repeat here the proofs 
of the character to show the existence of mind, 
the supreme presence. 

That the department is effected in its action 
by suggestion we will sustain I am sure. Our 
work in hypnotism has enabled us to understand 
the principle of suggestion. 

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We may take otir subject into and out of the 
deepest hypnosis thousands of times and produce 
no changes different from what would have oc- 
curred if he had taken so many brief periods of 
sleep. Having him in that passive state, give 
him a suggestion that by the time his watch has 
ticked ten times he will have no sense of pain 
in his body. Then give test by a thrust of a 
needle through his skin; anesthesia is found to 
exist. Suggest that it is gone, and instantly 
sensibility will return. 

You can proceed indefinitely with all sorts of 
suggestions and produce answer in full, if they 
are possible, and providing also that they do not 
run counter to liis auto-suggestions. 

Since hypnosis is a state where the sub-con- 
scious mind is in full possession and we obtained 
no phenomena without suggestions being given, 
but all sorts with them, we must see that sug- 
gestion is the key to the action of the subcon- 
scious. 

The power is in the subconscious and sugges- 
tion is the key to its action, yet a very large ex- 
perience has taught us that the reason suggestion 
is the key to the action of the subconscious, is 
because through suggesting we create an expec- 
tancy upon the part of the subconscious. If we 

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stop short of creating that expectancy, we fail to 
produce the answer. Many times, mental and 
audible suggestions are given to no avail because 
they did not create the degree of expectancy. 
The man did not believe in his soul that the thing 
would occur. The subconscious does not build 
what it does not first expect. 

Then through hypnosis we discover that the 
subconscious mind is the power; that suggestion 
is the key and expectancy the degree. Hypnosis 
did not create the subconscious mind nor the 
power, therefore they are present whether one is 
hypnotized or not. The agent and power being 
always present and suggestion being the key, 
psychology is the science that must reveal to us 
the conditions under which the key can be ap- 
plied to create an expectancy. In another sub- 
ject I am giving the suggestible states, therefore 
refer here to the best one for treatment. 

I have my patient sit or lie comfortably ; sitting 
position, reclining in a morris chair preferable. 
I instruct him to close his eyes and to relax as 
completely as he can ; to let his mind wander, not 
centering it upon anything. Very soon after this 
rest begins, I commence audibly to suggest to 
him that he will enjoy a perfect rest; every care 
disappearing from his mind. 

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Presently I also suggest audibly that the symp- 
toms he has had of a distressing kind will tend 
to disappear ; that he will be better and will con- 
tinue to improve until well. I usually mention 
the literal symptom that will disappear; I sug- 
gest the literal form of the improvement that will 
take place. In half an hour of such rest I give 
the same suggestion three or four times at inter- 
vals of several minutes between. In that interval 
I give the same suggestions mentally, thinking 
in the actual terms of words as if I had spoken 
them. 

I noted by repeated demonstration that thera- 
peutic work brought more satisfactory and per- 
manent results in the light passivity than when I 
used hypnosis. I'Thoose the lighter passivity 
then because it is better, not because hypnosis is 
-bad. It is simply unnecessary. There is nothing 
curative in either light or deep passivity; the 
cure is effected by suggestion, creating an ex- 
pectancy in the soul of the patient. The inebriate, 
drug habituate, or one who is subject to moral 
reform, or one who wishes development of his 
art, psychic or other subjective power will re- 
spond to the formula given. 

Having the law and the formula, we can help 
one another. Let no one imagine that the heal- 

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ing power is in the operator, it is in the patient. 
Any one with the good sense of how to give con- 
structive suggestions mentally and spoken, can 
cause the power of the subconscious mind to act 
in the direction of healing. It may be opportune 
to close this subject by further quotation from 
John Wesley's medical advice. His treatment 
for consumption was "Take no food but new 
buttermilk, churned in a bottle, and white bread. 
Or every morning cut up a little fresh turf of 
earth, and lying down, breathe into the hole for 
a quarter of an hour." Then for baldness he ad- 
vises, "Rub the part morning and evening with 
onions 'til red and rub afternoon with honey," 
closing with this, "But I still advise in compli- 
cated cases, let every one apply without delay 
to a physician that fears God ; for from one who 
does not, be his fame ever so great I should ex- 
pect a curse, rather than a blessing." Thus we 
see that even in the time of Wesley, mind, not 
matter was first. If a man's mind were not 
right, the drugs he gave could not cure, 

My book of personal psychology, "Mind the 
Builder," which is still in print, treats of our 
science, with first regard for the department of 
mind that designs, and the other department that 
builds. 

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"Mind the Transformer" has purposes which 
are not more than alluded to in "Mind the 
Builder. ,, The latter goes back to the design 
which is an image, something entirely spiritual, 
really best defined as an order of thought. The 
demonstration shows how that thinking, which 
is the mind functioning, causes the particles of 
ether to assemble to afford the beginning of a 
material fulfillment of the design. How the 
design determines the course of the thought. 
Mind uses the first cell as an instrument to aid 
in the production of the second, those two, be- 
come the material instrument to produce four 
cells, and so on until the whole design or idea 
has taken form. 

Mind as a transformer is working with the 
tangible form and is demonstrating its power and 
office in making other forms by modifying the 
first. Fundamental psychology must, like ele- 
mentary physiology, begin with the cell. The 
cell is the physical form we wish to consider in 
its various phases. We shall also note how mind 
transforms it. Even if I treat it technically, it 
will be in a manner to so simplify it, that a child 
can understand it and by reference to the illustra- 
tions, become much interested and well informed 
upon the vital things in histology. 

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CHAPTER II. 
Cell Structure of the Body 

The cell is the elementary organism whose 
essential parts are the cell body and a nucleus, 
the latter lying in the middle of the cell. The 
cells in form may be spherical, flattened, spindle- 
shaped or elongated, depending upon the kind of 
tissue they form, and the office they are to fulfill. 
The nucleus takes the form after the type of the 
cell of which it is a part. 

When it was discovered that the body is made 
up of cells, motion was recognized. This is of 
many forms, of which the movement from place 
to place is most noticeable. Usually this is ac- 
complished by the cell projecting one portion of 
its body, then permitting itself to be drawn after 
that. Cell reproduction is entirely by the cell 
division, each cell dividing into two cells by a 
division of the nucleus. Each portion then be- 
comes the center of a cell. 

Typical Cells 

Pictorially and by word, I will illustrate suffic- 
ient kinds of cells to familiarize us with the es- 
sential facts, that we may know the fundamental 
things about all tissues, structures and organisms 
made up of cells. 

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The muscle cells have elongated bodies, maybe 
spindle shaped, cylindrical, slightly flattened or 
elliptical. The nucleus, manner of reproduction 
and adaptation in size and form, according to 
their purposes, are in perfect correspondence 
with other typical cells. 

Nerve cells are varied in form, and also the 
tissues which are composed of nerve cells. There 
is no need, for our purposes, to go into the de- 
tails of the forms of cells that comprise brain, 
spinal cord, or the threads that go to every part 
of the body. Our definite aim, at present, is to 
show the principle to which every cell is faithful, 
and corresponds with the description given under 
physical cells. 

Cartilage, bone and marrow cells are shown 
with the characteristics of all other cells. 

To give minute description of the blood ves- 
sels would simply mean to detail the cell struct- 
ure of their walls. Although the blood is itself 
made up of distinct kinds of cells, all of its course 
is through structures made of other cells. 

Human Blood Cells — The colored, are in the 
form of a flat circular disc, slightly concave on 
each surface. Some are also spherical. The 
white blood cells travel everywhere outside or 
inside of the blood vessels. Their office is that 

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of scavengers. When in motion they may be al- 
most any shape, but are spherical when at rest. 
Upon examination the hair, nails, the teeth and 
their enamel, all structures and tissues, special 
organs, the secretions and many products of the 
cells in their functioning, disclose cellular forma- 
tion. 

How Cells Multiply 

The organized body is found to be made up 
of an aggregate of physical entities that, although 
they are microscopic, fulfill the law of reproduc- 
tion, each one producing its kind by becoming 
two. Now for the sake of an easy way to under- 
stand what has been made hard to know, let us 
think that possibly there was a time in the his- 
tory of each human body when there was just 
one cell of each kind of tissue present ; that as it 
is inherent in the cell to be possessed of the mas- 
culine and feminine element so it can reproduce 
of itself, then if there are two score kinds of 
cells, forty cells could be the source of the per- 
fected adult body. When we have this picture 
in mind, I want to explain that there never is any 
such situation, but something more marvelous, 
something grander than the body with its billions 
of individual cells coming from forty parents. 
But by your thinking of how the forty could be, 

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if they exist singly, the parents of as many varie- 
ties of cells, you can follow me back to one cell, 
which had the potency to be the parent of all of 
these species that enter into the structure, the 
body. 

The first egg, or cell, the primary cell comes 
into existence through the feminine ovum being 
fertilized by the masculine element; really a 
blending of two cells in one, with the character- 
istics of all cells, a body and a nucleus and an 
impulse to multiply; which it does by becoming 
two cells. This cell division is accomplished 
through the function of nutrition and absorption 
of food, until the cell reaches its full develop- 
ment when it divides the nucleus into two, which 
become the centers of two bodies. 

By a study of the parent cell development, 
when it has become two and then four, then eight 
and so on, we find the order of their arrangement, 
as they multiply, is with reference to a purpose 
which we realize they are to fulfill by their co- 
operation. They comprise something made up 
of their bodies and they also work together to 
create something. They create membranes of 
cells, and the cells of the membranes create all 
of the different species of cells, ultimately present 
in the structures. 

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The discovery of the cell structure of the body 
is the greatest aid to human analysis and under- 
standing. 

That all of these cells are typical eggs, fertile 
and alive, whose generation comes, through the 
potency of one egg or cell, to be the parent of 
all, is easily understood. 

Our research would yield us only a fraction of 
its value, if we stopped at the fact that the hu- 
man body, or the animal world as for that, is 
built upon the same law of cell structure in which 
the individual organism descends from a fertilized 
egg. The lowest form of life, the highest and 
all between, is cell life. The amoeba, the man; 
the microscopic animal, the world of bacteria or 
the larger vegetable life, indeed everything that 
has life is a cell or multiple of cells. 

Since all life is similar in its plan of structure 
to the extent that there is the universal cell or- 
ganization of cells, we cannot rest until we find 
the whole range of similarities. 

Appearances, powers and offices of organized 
cells in the complete individual are so varied that 
we can see how the difference occurs. 

Without much knowledge we would say : "why, 
of course, the difference begins in having unlike 
parents; offspring so dissimilar in all character- 

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istics, except the fact of cell structure and being 
alive, come from eggs with equal dissimilarity." 
That would be an easy way to settle the matter, 
except for the facts, which are readily at hand 
with our mechanical facilities so perfected for 
examination of the first eggs from which crea- 
tions descend. 

We could go the whole range of organization 
and show that the correspondence in these prim- 
ary eggs is perfect and alike in the physical 
phases, possibly excepting size. Chemically they 
are similar. In order of cell body and nucleus 
relationship all are like the typical cell. 

That the conception of this principle may be 
perfect we present to you an illustration of the 
different eggs from which creatures develop. The 
egg of the sponge animal, in the top line of the 
plate, is shown in different positions; the next 
two lines exhibit the egg of the parasite crab, also 
showing the positions of that cell in moving 
about. The fourth line is the egg from which 
the cat develops; the lower left hand corner 
shows the ovum of a trout; the next that of a 
chicken, and the third is a fertilized ovum or 
egg, from which a human being evolves. 

These are all beginnings, and when we know 
them to be alike, whtf can keep from asking "then 

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how can they produce such unlike results ?" Test 
all of the laws of matter to the utmost, and there 
is no available answer. There is no answer 
in the chemistry of the first egg being unlike 
nor that they have different sorts of chemistry 
in their food supply. If there were a difference 
in these respects, that would not account for the 
mental and spiritual range between the trout and 
man, or the sponge and cat. If there is no ac- 
counting for the phenomena mentioned from a 
physical standpoint then there must be a mind 
phase that applies to every living cell-built thing. 
That is the transcendent truth that answers all 
of the unsolved questions of biology that eluded 
our materialist scientists. This truth should be 
inscribed in some fashion upon every page of 
history of organic life. 



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DESCRIPTION OF FIGURES 

Figure 1 shows in the first row, the egg (cell) from 
which the sponge animal develops ; illustrating different 
forms it takes in moving from place to place. 

In the second and third rows the egg (cell) of the 
parasite crab is shown, undergoing changes. In the 
third row is shown the egg (cell) from which the cat 
evolves. 

In the fourth row, in the corner on the left there is 
the primary cell of the trout ; next, that of the chicken, 
and the third, that fertilized egg or cell that unfolds 
into the human being. 

Figure No. 2 illustrates the Amoeba beginning as the 
single cell; then it forms its two neuclei, and its body 
becomes elongated, then smaller around the middle 
until it separates, becoming two perfect cells. This is 
the manner of all cell multiplication, whether it is the 
first cell of the man or the cell of any tissue of his body. 

Figure No. 3 shows the Amoeba approaching its food, 
then finally wrapping its body around it, encloses it and 
then absorbs it. This is the typical manner in which 
all cells treat and absorb their food. 

Figure No. 4 is the coral animal beginning with the 
first cell ; shows the multiplication and then the manner 
of arrangement of the cells to perfect the animal. Sev- 
eral sections are made to show the internal arrangement 
of the cells. All of the different kingdoms of cell life 
are possessed of the same characteristics in cell con- 
struction, multiplication and habits. 

The upper portion of Figure No. 5 illustrates the cells 
of the enamel of the teeth; the lower portion, nine 
cells of bone tissue. These convey correct ideas of all 
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CHAPTER III. 
Mind in the Cells 

It is axiomatic that matter, as such, cannot 
hold an image. An image must be something 
spiritual, something of mind. Affirming that 
there is the law of imagery operative in the pri- 
mary cell, is another way of stating that the 
ovum is a spiritual entity — a creation with mind 
and body. 

In our former lessons in these pages, we took 
the cells of the adult body to study them physical- 
ly, and were lead back to the parent cell, a fer- 
tilized ovum. Now we want to study the first 
cell psychically and, as is the parent so is that 
which descends from it, showing the mind pres- 
ent in every cell. 

To make it possible to appreciate the mind in 
an egg cell and hence all the cells developing out 
of it, we may happily, apply our knowledge of 
the intelligence of the single celled animals that 
we have studied, with the aid of the microscope. 
The first of these being the amoeba. Natively 
this is a water animal life that lives and dies a 
single cell. Reference to our illustrations shows 
it to be after the type of the cells of structures 
of the human body, the sponge, the coral, the 

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vegetable, crab, cat, trout, chick and the primary 
cell of the human body. The picture of the 
amoeba aprpoaching its food and wrapping its 
body around it, until finally it is absorbed, is 
characteristic of cells taking their material sup- 
ply. Furthermore the illustration of the amoeba, 
as it proceeds to multiply by self-division, is the 
common cleavage method of cells, whether they 
live in individual or community life. 

The amoeba recognizes food and seeks to ap- 
ply it for his comfort and rejects that which is 
not food. Cells, that are part of a body of mul- 
tiple cells, do the same. Mere matter would not 
do this — mind must be present and functioning, 
to exercise this choice. The amoeba recognizes 
its enemies and flees from them, choosing a hid- 
ing place. Individual cells that are a part even 
of the human body show the same scope of in- 
telligence the amoeba shows, being under impulse 
to reproduce, and does reproduce its kind. So 
do all cells, but mere matter could not have im- 
pulse. Impulse must be in the mind operating 
over matter; operating for the purpose of build- 
ing a physical instrument for its use. At present 
it is not my purpose to show the scope of intelli- 
gence in cells, but to aid you in the conception 
of the fact of mind the builder, MIND THE 

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TRANSFORMER being present and master in 
the primary and succeeding cells. 

I am sure you are ready now for me to say, 
and be understood, that the ovum in its -spiritual 
phase holds an image, a design, and is possessed 
of an impulse and a potency to apply, under the 
law of food and nutrition, matter so as to build 
more cells which it, the mind, arranges in such a 
manner as to build an organism in perfect ful- 
fillment of the design. Original spirit and an- 
cestry have created the design or image that is 
over the primary cell, the mind present in the 
organism that produced the egg would specifi- 
cally impress the image that is present in the 
egg. I do not know that I will, in this volume, 
treat extensively the question of the ONE MIND 
that has its specific and individual impressions 
and impulses, which are conveyed to integral 
members of the universe by the myriad tiny or 
mammoth separate organizations that keep pro- 
ducing their kind. 

My purpose now is to give the practical lesson 
on "Mind the Transformer" that has commenced 
with an egg, but which must be changed in form 
before it becomes man. Give this egg over to 
matter to build a man, and you quickly realize 
there could be no evolution. Place the material 

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ovum in the hands only of mind outside to act 
upon the egg and you remove all individual re- 
sponsibility, possibility and purpose. There would 
be no distinctness of kind. 

Just Where Mind Lays Hold of Matter 

The next privilege I eagerly accept is to por- 
tray the glory, the good, the beauty and the 
power of the NEW PSYCHOLOGY as it con- 
ceives of the instant when mind begins to take a 
body. What matters it now whether we say mind 
or soul in this connection? You know I mean 
the intelligence that is operating to get a body, 
which it must do through controlling matter. 
Soul is the best word, because the psychic of the 
cell, or soul of the cell, has been a term at least, 
of scientists. For our best purpose in showing 
the universal principle whether it is to build a 
grain of wheat, a coral, or a sponge animal, fowl 
or fish, I will show where soul first begins to ap- 
ply matter to build a human body and thereby de- 
fine Mind the Transformer in dealing with sub- 
stance. 

The first cell is a blending of a masculine ele- 
ment with a feminine element, but before this cell 
is created, mind has acted upon each of these 
elements. Mind is present in the masculine cell 
also in the feminine egg, but neither could pro- 
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duce a human being without uniting with the 
other. Through the natural functioning of the 
organism of woman an egg is created. The're 
was a time in her history when that ovum did 
not exist, it is a product of her mind and body, 
and she gives that egg its mind. No one would 
read from this that mind did not exist before nor 
that matter which the mind uses to build itself 
a body did not exist before this process, which 
has for its purpose, the individualizing of a new 
being, a man that did not exist before, as a man. 

One can think of the sweet of candy and his 
salivary glands will create certain chemical forms, 
and so will the stomach glands. Certain others 
did not exist in such form until his organism 
produced them. His subconscious mind lays 
hold upon matter in these secretory glands, to 
produce cells with minds and bodies which have 
impulse to digest food. Just where and how 
and when mind took hold of matter in this in- 
stance is perfectly clear. The man did not get 
the candy so it is not a case of physical stimulus. 

There is a time when the masculine element, 
which is the present object of our research, does 
not exist as such. The activities of his mind upon 
his body organism, produces the cells with their 
minds and bodies. Their minds are under im- 

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pulse to unite with the feminine element just as 
the digestive cells are under impulse to act upon 
food. One is no more mysterious than the other ; 
neither one is supernatural in any way. Mind, 
functioning in thought (creating an image) uses 
a physical organism to produce a cell which is 
possessed of mind and impulse and potency, to 
deal further with matter until its ideal has taken 
form. 

When these cells have blended to produce the 
one primary cell, there is an image present given 
to it by what is innate in original mind, modified 
by species or ancestry and by immediate parents. 

Man in his first residence is a single cell in that 
material home and therein takes place the marvel- 
ous truth that human understanding has been 
very slow to divest of the mystical and super- 
natural. 

The image, or the building as it would be if 
the design present in the cell were fulfilled, may 
be modified for better or for worse by the 
mother's imagery. Her charge is sacred, for 
from the instant of the uniting of the two cells, 
she holds the power to determine what design 
shall be in the soul of the child when it is born. 
She can, if she knows the transforming power of 
mind and the access she has to the mind that 

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transforms, remove all the undesirable imagery 
that came with the first cell and insert the de- 
sirable that would make the best life, the instinct- 
ive one for the child. 

I see no occasion to go with you over the 
ground of the evolution of the mind and body. 
Your observation of the cell as it starts to mul- 
tiply, and your knowledge that the law acts over 
every cell to multiply in the same way, will teach 
you the whole scheme of evolution. 

Mind is always present, is the supreme trans- 
former. Now the remaining practical lessons are 
to know how we can will to effect the transform- 
ing power to bring us the desirable, going right 
on from where we find ourselves. Every depart- 
ment of psychology for correction, modification 
or development of mental, spiritual or physical is 
based upon the principles as they are explained 
in the department of physiology and psychology 
of the cell. The principle of mind in the cell, or 
the aggregate of cells holds a power to transform 
all the phases of the being after the ideas of our 
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CHAPTER IV. 
Practical Psycho-Therapeutics 

Scientific suggestion means the introduction 
of an idea into the sub-conscious department of 
mind, the psychic department, usually spoken of 
as the soul. This idea may be introduced in the 
active state of the patient by his accepting it with 
his mind and then passing it down to the soul, 
thus giving his objective co-operation with the 
positions suggested. It is so seldom that the 
patient with his mind can believe implicitly, not 
carrying even a shadow of doubt to the soul, that 
dependence upon suggestion given in the active 
state, is not warranted. There is a law of sug- 
gestion, because the laws of the soul are as fixed 
as the laws of chemistry, magnetism, electricity, 
or gravity. The idea that is fixed in perfect faith 
upon the soul will compel answer, involving even 
a changing of the organism chemically, structur- 
ally, or functionally. It believes all the mind tells 
it ; it builds upon wrong expectancy, as effectual- 
ly and as surely as upon the correct one. Under 
a wrong suggestion the soul will change the body 
to the abnormal ; under a right suggestion it will 
perfect all of the physical organization. 

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in the patient that heals his own body, and we 
will show how to get access to that power to pro- 
duce the phenomenon of cure. 

A young Englishman of 26 years presented 
himself at my office for treatment for stammer- 
ing. His distorted countenance when endeavor- 
ing to speak would call forth the sympathy of 
almost any observer. His disorder had existed 
since the age of six or seven, and had its origin 
in his mimicry of a man whom he saw occasional- 
ly. He and his sister indulged in this sport- 
making, having no evil purpose, but kept up the 
practice voluntarily for a time, when he found 
that if he desired to speak normally there was 
involuntary stammering. This grew upon him 
until it was with the greatest difficulty that he 
could make himself understood at all. His edu- 
cation was fair in general lines. He had fitted 
himself for book-keeping, and, being an adept 
accountant, could have commanded the best po- 
sition and salary, but for his defective speech. 
He had been through several institutions in this 
country, that had various methods for treating 
such a case, but he said the exercises seemed to 
have made him more self-conscious and he had 
met with no improvement. 

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It was then he came to me and I applied the 
science of suggestion. We continued treatments 
three times a week for two months, modifying 
the form of suggestion as the case advanced. I 
ceased referring to the old conditions and gave 
only positive suggestions of harmonious speech 
and perfect control over the organs of speech and 
muscles of the face. 

The patient returned to England cured. He 
had left his family and friends on account of his 
humiliating disorder. 

I will not recite a series of such cases, for this 
is one of a type, where the organs are all present 
and normal, but where wrong habits have been 
formed. In other cases somewhat similar to this, 
surgery may be resorted to but operations often 
fall short of their purpose, in the absence of sug- 
gestion. Suggestion and surgerey must co- 
operate to establish right organic conditions and 
functional control. 

Of course this was purely a disorder of func- 
tions. The feature of habit was as profound as 
could be in any instance. However, neither habit, 
heredity, or any other form of mental state can 
be impressed more deeply than in the soul itself. 
That being the case, since in the passive state, 
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wrongly impressed, we remove the error, plant 
and cultivate a new habit and then we are able 
to get natural expression. 

The soul is ever striving for moral and physical 
harmony, and because of that it took much less 
time to plant order in the soul than it did the dis- 
order. He had to break law to obtain defective 
speech. He had only to bring himself in har- 
mony with law to correct his speech. 

Insomnia is probably the most easily respons- 
ive disorder of all the conditions where the ner- 
vous system chiefly is involved. Mrs. R., a 
patient of about thirty-five, belonged to the so- 
ciety set in San Francisco. She could not sleep 
except by the use of drugs, the most of which 
she had exhausted, and from none of them did 
she get any refreshing sleep. She was placed in 
a chair and made comfortable, and the usual 
processes adopted for producing the passivity, 
and "being quite responsive, I began her sugges- 
tive treatment at once. The words I used were 
like these: 

"Immediately upon retiring tonight you will 
find a drowsiness overcome you quickly, followed 
by an unconscious sleep. During the night, 
whenever you shall awaken, it will be only for a 
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a refreshing sleep. In the course of the night 
you will get at least six hours' sleep, and in the 
morning you will be conscious of having had a 
most refreshing slumber. You will be glad that 
you have had that sleep without any drugs to 
compel it. You will not desire any medicine 
again to produce sleep. You will not feel the 
loss of it in giving it up entirely." 

This case and all of the kind have been treated 
usually three times a week for two weeks or a 
month according to how long a period of time 
the insomnia had previously existed. The idea 
of progress in the case is planted with the be- 
ginning of the treatment, and is always observed 
until we can truthfully say that the disease and 
its symptoms have all disappeared and will never 
return. The beginning practitioner should care- 
fully observe the lessons herein taught pertaining 
to aspiration. The patient does not receive J:he 
suggestion at the first treatment, that he is going 
to be perfectly well when aroused from his pas- 
sivity, or that immediately upon being treated at 
any sitting that there has been such action that 
none of the symptoms of the disorder will ever 
appear again. He should always suggest im- 
provement and yet observe conservation, to avoid 
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addressing. Such an impression is made by the 
chronic condition that it is rarely indeed if ever 
possible, for one to absolutely remove all symp- 
toms at a few sittings. Usually there is a neces- 
sity to not only overcome disease, but also to 
establish a health habit. You should hold your 
patient under treatment until that has been ac- 
complished. In cases of insomnia, especially with 
people represented by this lady, you will nearly 
always have to cure a drug habit, as well as to 
restore the equilibrium of the nervous system, so 
that the patient can sleep naturally. 

In the instance cited above full observation was 
given to all of these phases and her cure was 
perfect. 

Suggestion, I mean scientific suggestion, which 
is to be given in the passive state, will go hand 
in hand with any other method. 

In the hands of the specialist demonstrations 
have been in the main confined to those cases pro- 
nounced incurable, having made the rounds of 
all other forms of treatment. Such a large per- 
centage of cures when dealing solely with that 
class, is a marvelous fact. 

There are some reasons why a physician or 
known healer would be the most efficient sug- 
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stance is to obtain an expectancy in the soul of 
the patient, and a man who is already great in 
reputation has earned the confidence of the pa- 
tient, which will be the basis of grounding faith. 

The chief essential of an operator is common 
sense. The next is sympathy. And if common 
sense does not include tact, we will make that the 
third essential. He must have firmness and posi- 
tiveness as one who believes in himself and in 
his teachings; in other words, sincerity. He 
should have calmness and ease, confidence of 
manner, and a voice that contains the magnetism 
and sympathy of love, for he should be in the 
attitude towards his patient as a mother towards 
her child, whom she comforts and soothes to 
sleep. 

One who might be generally considered an 
ideal operator, might not be thought so by every 
patient for he may have his own ideas as to the 
qualities that he wants to see embodied in his 
suggestor. 

If love and sympathy and common sense and 
tact are found in an individual, he can meet with 
practically universal success. Those qualities will 
win the way to the soul, and will be able to sup- 
ply the needs of that soul. 

We will consider some of the diseases, and the 

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method of giving suggestions in the passive state. 
I will recite a case of eczema that has been suc- 
cessfully treated at my hands, and which is typ- 
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CHAPTER V. 
Cases and Their Treatment 

The case was a lady of between forty-five and 
fifty, presenting the symptoms of loss of appetite, 
indigestion, frequent headaches, insomnia, and 
general nervousness. She said she had had a 
breaking out of the skin on her chest and should- 
ers, and that the itching and burning were driv- 
ing her crazy. 

Her occupation was that of a teacher. All the 
symptoms excepting that of the inflammatory 
condition of the skin, had existed for some time. 
Her nervous system had received a shock eight 
years previously, and she had been under medical 
treatment almost all of that time, for various dis- 
orders. 

She considered that her worst difficulty, when 
she came to me was that of indigestion, — prac- 
tically all of dietary had been withdrawn. She 
had made the rounds of physicians who, one after 
another, had withdrawn different articles of food, 
until she believed that all the substances disagreed 
with her, and she realized her expectations. She 
was trying to subsist upon a little breakfast food 
when she came to me. 

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and relaxed her body as best she could; when 
I requested her to close her eyes, it was impos- 
sible for her to keep them closed. Placing my 
fingers over her eyes, as I did not wish her to 
tire them by gaze, and holding them closed, I 
began the suggestions; "You will become so 
calm, and all is so peaceful and quiet here that 
you will get very comfortable, and perfect com- 
posure will come to you instantly. This treat- 
ment is soothing and you will receive an electrical 
balance. You feel better already, calm mentally 
— indifferent to your surroundings and feelings. 
You feel you can receive the suggestions with 
your whole being ; you will realize all the changes 
I shall predict for you ; you will get many more 
hours of sleep tonight, and the moments you are 
awake you will be free from worry, anxiety or 
fear, and will have only most delightful thoughts 
during that time. Immediately after this treat- 
ment you will feel hungry ; your appetite for food 
will return at once, and when you eat you will 
have no thought that your food will disagree 
with you. I shall not detail your items of diet — 
I want you to eat a general mixed dietary and 
have no fear or thought about food after you 
eat and you will find every meal will be taken 
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three good meals daily and regularly. Your 
stomach will perform its offices in secreting the 
right fluids to treat the food — its muscular and 
nervous activities will be normal. The liver will 
perform its appointments naturally, and the in- 
testinal functions be efficiently carried on. The 
assimilation of your food will be perfect; every 
cell shall take from your food the elements 
needed. The irritation of the skin, showing a 
lack of elimination, will disappear. Improvement 
in every direction shall continue from this mo- 
ment until you are perfectly well in all respects. 
Soon you will be sleeping all night long, like a 
little child; your eating will be ample and regu- 
lar, and you will be anxious to eat at every meal 
time. Your nervous system will have during this 
time found its equilibrium, and this quietness and 
calmness and control will have become a habit. 
With all of this improvement in the nerves, in the 
assimilation of food and elimination of waste sub- 
stances made perfect, the itching and painful and 
inflamed condition of the skin will quickly disap- 
pear and will never annoy you again. You will 
be better, and continue to improve until quite 
well. At our next treatment you will become 
more deeply passive, and you will gladly close 
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sit down in this chair. Continue bright and cheer- 
ful and hopeful, free from all worry from this 
moment. All right now." 

The last words "all right" are better than to 
say "wake up," because to the latter the response 
always is, "I was not asleep." This passivity 
that is possible to all, even to an extremely nerv- 
ous patient as that described, is ample for thera- 
peutic purposes, save in the exceptions mentioned 
elsewhere. 

One can hardly imagine the improvement that 
took place in this patient between the first and 
the second treatment. "I have slept like a child 
and eaten with delight; I do not have to use all 
my energies in scratching either, for the break- 
ing out is disappearing fast." 

The second treatment was much like the first, 
being along the same lines to make permanent 
the improvement. During the treatment course, 
which was for a month, and given three times a 
week, suggestions were made with reference to 
the disappearance of disease symptoms and to 
the removing of all memories of those disorders, 
and the establishment of the idea of perfect health 
in their stead. 

The cure of this patient was perfect along all 
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course the improved nutrition and elimination 
made most marked impressions upon her appear- 
ance and mental state. In some degree her gen- 
eral character and habits were changed but worry- 
was a large feature in her nature, and she had a 
very great burden upon her. It will be observed 
by every practitioner that when a patient has 
been quickly and profoundly affected, a time or 
two by suggestion removing the penalties at- 
tached to breaking laws, the tendency is to tempt 
nature too far. Under medical treatment, even 
though they might get well, they dread the dis- 
agreeable medicine and the experiences of ill- 
ness, which has a very wholesome effect upon 
the care of themselves ; but the comfort and care 
and pleasure under treatment by the suggestion 
method tends to make one indifferent to health 
observation. 

The principle upon which this lady was treated 
is the universal one under the psychic practice. 
The student will observe that treatment was not 
limited to the cause that brought the patient to 
the office, but that while the irritation of the skin, 
due to its inflammatory condition was the pri- 
mary cause of the patient applying, yet it received 
less attention when we began treatment than 
other conditions did. 

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This fact should cause the pupil to study this 
case very carefully to note particularly that there 
is nearly always something wrong with the 
nutrition or elimination, and usually both; that 
the nervous system is always involved in some 
way or other in every disorder; that circulation 
is often defective ; that the habits of the patient's 
life should be looked after, and a careful observ- 
ance of hygienic practices and exercises should 
be considered. The patient who has had wrong 
expectations must be made to understand how 
disastrous they are, as, for instance, in the above 
case the lady never swallowed a mouthful of food 
without expecting that it would in some way give 
her distress afterwards. 

The habit of discussing at the table those items 
of food that disagree with one or another is a 
most deplorable thing to do. Granting that some- 
thing does disagree with one, he has no right to 
burden others with his eccentricity and upset 
their dietetics. 

The patient described above has studied the 
principles involved in her treatment, and has 
successfully applied them in training her chil- 
dren from an educational standpoint, and is 
bringing them up in fulfillment of her ideal, 
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est hope for the science of the soul is grounded 
In the rising generation. 

The intelligent way to give treatment, and 
that which I find is based upon principle, and 
always successful, is to remove, if. possible, the 
primary cause, by giving specific suggestions 
concerning all the changes that can possibly be 
related to the case. 

Passivity and relaxation and the indifference 
of the mind result in the depletion of the brain 
of its excess of blood, which is conducive to the 
right mental and physical state for receiving the 
introduction of the idea into the soul, and which 
cause the soul to act promptly and effectually 
in producing the conditions suggested. 

It is peculiar that the question is always asked 
when one has been treated by a method that has 
not been in the medical books for the last hun- 
dred years, as to whether or not the cure is per- 
manent. 

I have said that this case was cured. That 
seems to me final, and the question of perma- 
nency can hardly attach itself in a case that is 
cured, but if the patient should bring about the 
same conditions that were present and caused 
the disease in years gone by, he would get the 
same effect again from a like cause. It comes 

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to me as a new case, for, in the absence of a 
new cause, no disease would appear. 

Case. No. 12. A complex case was that of a 
young woman, twenty-two years of age, who 
had been a seamstress in a tailor shop for a num- 
ber of years, and was advised to come to me for 
treatment. 

Her chronic trouble was Saint Vitus Dance. 
This was of six years' standing, and always more 
or less present, although the greater part of the 
time she had kept at her work. 

When I was called in, her spasms were mani- 
fest in the whole body, including the face. She 
could not control her speech, or be understood. 
She was suffering from inflammatory rheuma- 
tism and hysteria. There was uterine conges- 
tion, although counsel and myself could not 
determine how much the congestion had to do 
with the nervous symptoms. 

We could locate no spinal trouble, and in her 
condition at the beginning of the treatment, 
relief of several symptoms was of the greatest 
import, and a complete diagnosis was never 
made. 

She heard the physician who was with me in 
counsel say that she was hysterical, and that 
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ing. She slapped him in the face when he at- 
tempted to make an examination, and refused 
to have him present in her treatment. 

I was more fortunate in pleasing her, for I 
believe that hysterical disorder is as much of a 
disease as anything else that we have to deal 
with. 

I was soon convinced that she was not simu- 
lating, because simulation is an act under the 
control of the voluntary mind, by the act of the 
will, imitates symptoms of disease. That which 
we call hysteria would be under the involuntary 
mind, and the symptoms are not controllable by 
the will of the patient. For that reason, the 
merciless way in which such cases are often 
treated justifies the contempt that the patient 
often feels for such physicians in their ignorance. 

Inflammatory rheumatism affected all the 
limbs, and at the joints there was great pain upon 
pressure or movement. Her temperature was 
from 101 to 103. 

I did not feel justified in making the ordinary 
repairs to get her through the acute disease, but 
began to assure her at once that if she would 
listen to what I would tell her that when she 
got up from the rheumatism she would have no 
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more quietly and calmly, and would have no 
jerking of the hands or feet, or the drawing of 
the muscles of the face. 

Of course, she knew nothing about my meth- 
ods or the principles upon which I promised 
such a cure, but she seemed to believe in me, 
and she said that she had been taking medicine 
for six years, trying to get rid of her nervous- 
ness, and that she thought that in some way she 
should be cured. 

Owing to the acute conditions and the neces- 
sity for profound and quick effect upon the sys- 
tem that might assist in the eliminating of the 
causes of the uric acid, which we found present, 
she was given purging medicine. 

By the second day she was made easy, having 
had a good night's rest and much sleep. There 
was no pain except when certain portions of 
the limbs were moved. Her temperature was 
lower, and all the symptoms showed that they 
had been impressed by the first treatment. 

She became rapidly better of the rheumatic 
symptoms, and within a week was all over the 
acute difficulty. In the meantime I had been 
giving suggestions that the inflammatory uterine 
trouble would be corrected and that at her next 
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ment of natural conditions that she would have 
no suffering; that the processes should be nor- 
mal in every respect, and that there should be 
absolutely no congestion after that time. 

I repeatedly suggested that the nervous system 
was being quieted, and that the muscular dis- 
orders would cease; that the habit of constantly 
keeping the limbs in motion would be overcome, 
and that she would have perfect control over 
every movement. 

She was treated daily during the period in 
which the rheumatism was still in evidence. 
After that three times a week. The entire course 
was only a month, and at the end of that time 
there was not one symptom remaining of rehu- 
matism, local congestion, nor of chorea, and she 
had gained a great deal in flesh and appearance. 

Her after history was, that she returned to her 
former occupation, and that there was no return 
of the nervous symptoms. She was treated by 
audible suggestions in the lightly passive state, 
but she went into the natural sleep during the 
treatment. That often occurs and is a good 
omen. 

This book is not written for the purpose of 
a case record, and the idea in reciting these cases 
is not to convince anyone that these special dis- 

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eases are more remarkably responsive to sug- 
gestive treatment than others, but because I de- 
sire to give illustrations of the literal wording 
of suggestions in the treatment of the case. 

The student will catch the idea of aiming at 
the removal of the cause when it is known to 
him. In any event, he should suggest the im- 
provement of the case to begin at once, and to 
continue until cured. He should suggest the dis- 
appearance of every unfavorable symptom, giv- 
ing each one a specific suggestion. 

It is not necessary for the operator or the 
patient either to absolutely know the correct 
diagnosis. It is a good idea to fall into the 
sensible habit of treating diseases by conditions 
rather than by names. 

There is a portion of this book to be devoted 
to showing how it is that the soul which we 
are addressing in giving therapeutic suggestions 
knows the correct diagnosis, for it is inherent in 
the soul to know the condition of every cell in 
which it resides, for it is present in every cell 
of every tissue of the body. The mind of either 
physician or patient might be mistaken, but the 
soul actually knows and gives a correct diagnosis 
many more times than it indicates. Were it 
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might place upon the soul a suggestion that cer- 
tain disorders exist that in the beginning were 
not present. 

Every physician has already found out how 
helpful it is to allow a patient to tell him of his 
own case in his own words. If he does not 
permit the patient to do this, but if from the 
beginning of the examination asks the questions 
that suggest symptoms, he will never arrive at a 
correct diagnosis. 

So far as the above patient is concerned, it 
would make little difference except as to the 
pleasure of the pathologist, to know for certain 
that the chorea was due to the rheumatic dia- 
thesis. My personal belief is that the uterine 
trouble was the primary cause of the nervous 
manifestations. The disorders of the female are 
particularly responsive to suggestion. The ma- 
jority, both functional and organic, are caused 
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CHAPTER VI. 
Morphine Habit Treated 

Within this same year I had occasion to treat 
a young man for the morphine habit. He was 
at this time twenty years of age, and at sixteen 
he was addicted to alcoholism and had taken the 
Keeley cure. He came out of that treatment 
with no taste for liquor, but with a desire to 
continue the hypodermic injections. He found 
it pleasing to have morphine in those injections, 
and he kept increasing the amount until when 
he was placed under my care he was using forty 
grains in twenty-four hours. 

This youth was suffering peculiarly when I 
first called, and he nonplussed me very much 
for the time being, but after getting him to rest 
for twelve hours, he was able upon awakening 
to tell me he had been using cocaine for two 
weeks, and so had taken a large injection of that 
drug along with his portion of morphine. His 
physician had been giving him all the chloral he 
dared, so I was unable to understand the situa- 
tion, due to the three drugs all in over-doses. 

The wonderful power of the sub-conscious 
mind to create a tolerance in the physical, for 
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score of people, is well worth attention for a 
moment in passing. It is on the order of other 
auto-suggestions, and is therefore a building pro- 
cess. The idea is first introduced by taking the 
minimum dose, and repetition is the method of 
re-impressing that idea, and presently it has 
grown to be an overwhelming suggestion as in 
this habit. 

The young man said he wanted to get rid of 
the habit of using these drugs, and if he had 
been addicted to the morphine habit only, I would 
have felt much encouraged by his expressed 
desire to quit, but it is very different when co- 
caine has been added to the habit of morphine- 
ism. The demoralizing effect of the cocaine 
habit is greater than in any other drug addiction. 
His promise would be worth nothing; he might 
seem to be attending to treatment and obeying 
instructions, and declare he was well, and yet be 
practicing the same as before the treatment com- 
menced. Remember this ; never trust the word 
of a cocaine fiend. 

I placed him under treatment, and developed 
him immediately into excellent passivity. The 
suggestions given were as follows, and are typ- 
ical of the best form to use in these cases : 

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the drugs, morphine or cocaine; the drugs shall 
become repulsive to you from this moment, and 
should you try to use the hypodermic needle the 
pain in introducing it will be awful. The thought 
of this pain will prevent you from using the 
needle, and the disgust for the drugs will keep 
you from forcing your body to receive them in 
any form. 

"Every form of elimination shall be stimu- 
lated, thus removing promptly and entirely the 
poison now in the body; and with this abstrac- 
tion you will find a delightful, satisfied and peace- 
ful state coming over you. You will not suffer 
any nervousness, mental depression or physical 
shock in ceasing to supply the body with these 
horrible drugs." In those days I treated drug 
habits by removal of the drug altogether and 
at once, but later I have found it better to per- 
mit a small dose at long intervals, instead of 
absolute withdrawal from the first. 

I repeated the above suggestions, as usual, a 
number of times during the sitting of a half 
hour, always making a stronger suggestion of 
improvement. I kept him under the watch of his 
family for two weeks. 

Through the sympathy of the father, who 
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sion, from the first, as to have him free from 
suffering from the denial, he gave his son small 
doses of morphine by hypodermic injection, al- 
though the boy did not declare any desire to 
have it. 

The father had also taken the Keeley cure 
twice and got this idea of reducing, not ab- 
staining. Since that time where the patient has 
been using enormous quantities, I permitted two 
grains to be given in small portions during the 
twenty-four hours. This would be lessened from 
day to day and stopped altogether in a week. 
In three weeks this case was cured of all his 
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CHAPTER VII. 
Hypnosis, Where and How to Use 

I have stated many times that the hypnotic 
state as a rule is unnecessary in our practice of 
suggestive therapeutics, yet, as there are some 
exceptions to the statement, I think it well to 
note these exceptions and this will make it in- 
cumbent upon us to have a thorough acquaint- 
ance with how to produce this state and apply 
it in practice. 

Concerning the methods of producing the state 
of hypnosis, every operator has some special 
methods that he prefers above all others. There 
is no objection to any of those in ordinary use 
today. Braid's method was to have the patient 
seated comfortably, then to look upwards at 
some bright object as a crystal, or a piece of 
silver, or a diamond, and have his eyes fixed at 
an angle of about forty-five degrees, and looking 
intently and not removing his gaze for an in- 
stant. This would be continued until the pa- 
tient's eyelids dropped involuntarily, even though 
the tears streamed down his cheeks before that 
occurred. Braid found that the majority of 
patients remained in the hypnotic state for a 
time, or until he told them to come out of it, 

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and that those who did not pass under the 
peculiar influence at one sitting would do so 
at future efforts. He also impressed his patients 
through the suggestive power of example, al- 
though he did not intentionally do so; but when 
he allowed one patient to see another go into 
the sleep it was copied by the second. 

It will be noted that almost any number of 
patients could be treated at one time by Braid's 
method of allowing them to sit and gaze and 
go into the hypnotic state and come out of it at 
a word from him, the symptoms in the mean- 
time having disappeared, at least partially. If 
I had any occasion to produce the state in any 
large number of persons at a time, I should even 
in these days use Dr. Braid's method. As will 
be seen further on, there is never occasion upon 
which it is necessary to produce the effect on a 
large number. 

The method that I have used chiefly in my 
practice has been to hold some object at a dis- 
tance of two or three feet in front of the pa- 
tient's eyes, also at about the angle spoken of 
previously. But I do not continue that gaze until 
the patient's eyes are compelled to close, but 
only long enough to tire the lids so that they 
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request the patient to close his eyes. I have 
found no evidence that there is any purpose in 
the gaze other than to fatigue the eyes, so that 
the patient is glad to have them closed. After 
the eyes are closed, I place a finger in the corner 
of each eye, pressing upward upon the nerves 
which have such relationships to nerve centers, 
as to assist in the quieting of the patient's mental 
action. 

Of course, the patient is comfortably seated, 
and if in a rocking chair, there is some support 
placed under the rocker, so that there will be 
no strain upon the muscles of his limbs; perfect 
relaxation must be provided for and must occur 
before the patient can possibly be placed in the 
hypnotic state. 
. Out of the many hundred cases in which I 
have actually produced the hypnotic state, I have 
never seen one instance where there was any 
nervous excitement, or anything aside from per- 
fect calmness and peace. Even by the Braid 
method, there is not often any nervous mani- 
festation, but always in' using the soothing 
method of the touch and reassuring words, there 
is nothing occurs but the beautiful and desirable- 
It is necessary to explain to the beginner that 
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foundly, yet in the absence of suggestion, no 
effect is produced upon any of the senses; he 
must learn that there is absolutely no change in 
the senses affected by the hypnotic state itself; 
that forget fulness (amnesia) does not character- 
ize the state even though it i$ deep. The loss 
of pain, or the inhibition of hearing only occurs 
by specific suggestion. 

His final state, if he reaches hypnosis, is that 
in which he is susceptible to suggestion and will 
respond to any suggestion given him that is not 
contrary to his auto-suggestion. Following the 
method indicated above, repeatedly, for from one 
to five sittings is requisite for an average person 
to be prepared for a surgical operation in 
dentistry, other surgery, or diseases that call for 
the hypnotic state. The hypnotic state is chiefly 
valuable in laboratory demonstrations, where we 
want to show the phenomena of sub-conscious 
powers ; for surgery or treatment of epilepsy. In 
the treatment of epilepsy, it has been found suc- 
cessful to produce the hypnotic state, and so 
train the patient that he would remain in the 
hypnotic state for several days at a time. When 
the time is at hand when he would ordinarily 
have his epileptic attack, if he is placed in the 
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state, and kept in that condition over that period, 
we not only have the advantage of breaking up 
the periodicity of the paroxysms, but also have 
the most favorable time in which to repeatedly 
impress the suggestions that none of the epileptic 
symptoms will occur. 

In giving the treatment by suggestion in such 
a case, the operator should aim to counteract by 
specific mention all the symptoms that have usual- 
ly been present in that particular individual, and 
also to suggest emphatically that the conditions 
causing the paroxysms are being overcome. 

It is inherent in the soul to know what the 
cause of the disease is, but thus far it has not 
been possible for the pathologist to discover the 
cause of the attacks unless from the history of 
the case there is a traumatic cause. Since the 
percentage of epileptics is small, to one who is in 
the general practice, we can see that the hypnotic 
state is very rarely necessary. 

In addition to the above, the importance of 
hypnotism in the laboratory work must be fully 
appreciated. Whatever advancement has been 
made in placing psychology on a practical basis 
is due to the study of that science through hyp- 
notic demonstrations. Hypnosis bears the same 
relationship to psychology that dissecting the 

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physical body does to the science of anatomy. In 
the absence of physical dissections, we would 
know very little about the body, either in struc- 
ture or function. Without the dissection of the 
mind, we would be just as ignorant as to the 
marvelous revelations that have come through 
our intimate association with the forms of mental 
action, made possible through hypnotized per- 
sons. 

In view of the fact that it is not necessary to 
use this hypnosis in any general way in the 
practice, and we find with every decade it is be- 
coming less a factor in psycho-therapeutics, I 
do not think it worth while to entertain a lengthy 
denial of the false charges that have been made 
against that form of mental phenomenon. It is 
a fact, however, that hypnotism and crime never 
did and never will enter into successful partner- 
ship. No person could be either the victim or 
the agent of crime through hypnosis, unless in 
reality a criminal already at heart. 

It is remarkable that it has not been generally 
known by operators that there could not be an 
unconscious state in hypnosis. The modern 
psychologist knows that the objective mind is 
not put into abeyance or out of existence, but 
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conscious mind or soul, which is more acutely- 
conscious than the objective mind alone could 
be; the soul becomes possessed of all that the 
objective minds knows or controls, as well as 
inherently being possessed of the involuntary 
powers. This latter statement explains the seem- 
ing superhuman physical strength in one while 
in the sub-conscious state. 

I have said above that the sub-conscious mind 
has a more acute consciousness than the objective 
mind. This is proven by the discernment of 
sounds that cannot be heard in the active state. 
Indeed, all of the senses are intensified or ex- 
alted. Then, with increased physical power and 
heightened consciousness, telepathic rapport en- 
ables the subject to anticipate every movement 
of the operator. Thus one having access to all 
the knowledge of the objective, plus that of the 
soul, with its own inherent perceptions, if a 
crime were contemplated at all by the operator, 
one would be in a better state for defense than 
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CHAPTER VIII. 
The Suggestible States 

The idiot is the only individual who cannot 
be hynotized. Others sometimes are in a con- 
dition that makes it impossible to produce hyp- 
nosis in them while in that state. For example, 
the intoxicated man must first get sober. There 
are some forms of insanity that make it very 
difficult and uncertain as to success, though many 
of the insane can be placed in hypnosis. All 
sound-minded, willing people respond; but no 
one who opposes can be hypnotized while op- 
posing. 

But why take up the discussion of hypnotism 
under the above title? Because it is generally 
supposed that one is not only the most sug- 
gestible in that state, but fallaciously thought to 
be altogether suggestible then. 

In opening the subject as to the conditions 
which make one most responsive to suggestion, 
we naturally go to our laboratory practices and 
results, from which we learn the principles. 
When one lies or sits so as to relax, and closes 
his eyes, he at once becomes in some degree 
passive. With deeper relaxation and more ab- 
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mately becomes natural, unconscious sleep. 
Hypnosis is a passivity just short of unconscious 
sleep. One may be held by suggestions from 
another just on the verge of sleep, a state in 
which he can still hear the words suggested. 
The Idiot is not hypnotizable, for he has no such 
intermediate state between conscious and uncon- 
scious. He falls asleep — right into the depths 
thereof at once. 

Let no one twist my meaning into a declara- 
tion that a "natural fool" is not suggestible, for 
he is, in the active state as well as in sleep, by 
telepathy. The feeble minded, even to the fool, 
can become useful through acquired intelligence, 
if one persistently gives him such mental sug- 
gestions as would involve development. 

However, starting with hypnosis as a suggesti- 
ble state, and one used for scientific revelation 
in the laboratory, we then look for correspond- 
ing states although not properly called hypnotic. 
If sleep is just beyond hypnosis, as shown in our 
definition, then in going to sleep one passes 
through the corresponding or hypnotic state of 
passivity whenever he goes to sleep. If the 
hypnotic sleep is a suggestible one, then anyone 
is suggestible when going to sleep. Any phe- 
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possible in the stage immediately preceding nat- 
ural sleep, the conditions being similar. In this 
state suggestions can be successfully given to 
children relating to physical change ; to the modi- 
fication or corrections of habits; details for par- 
ticular branches of study; for development of 
the artistic powers (extensively set forth in 
"Soul Culture"). All of these suggestions will 
be in force, sleeping or waking, from the mo- 
ment they are given. Reiterated time after time, 
they will make it possible for the aspiring indi- 
vidual to attain in excellence in every phase of his 
being. 

Analysis of these marvelous occurrences dis- 
closes this: The imagery that is placed upon a 
passive mind is so forcibly placed that it gains 
control of the mind. 'In the instructions just 
given I have indicated a method to be deliberately 
followed where results of a certain kind are 
desired. But if the suggestions (imagery) placed 
upon one, when he is going to sleep, and when 
asleep are as potent as laws or commands which 
he will afterwards unconsciously or subconscious- 
ly obey, what must we conclude as to the effect 
of the imagery so often unintentionally placed 
before the mind of the child as he is going to 
sleep ? 

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The child, born or unborn, the infant, or the 
older child ; in fact, all are suggestible through 
telepathy from those with whom they are in rap- 
port. 

When practicing medicine my advice used 
to be sought concerning a baby that would 
scream out in its sleep, have uncontrollable 
fits of crying and sometimes go into convul- 
sions. In those days I looked for physical 
causes, which never were found, for they were 
not there. The mother would fear that a pin 
had gotten unclasped and was pricking it. Since 
those days I have found the solution of the ques- 
tion in the anxiety or terrified state of the moth- 
er's mind that existed before and during the 
baby's sleep. It may sometimes be occasioned 
by a warm discussion between the parents, even 
with the child out of hearing, the imagery of the 
disputing parents, their pain, sorrow or anger 
becoming the law of the child's immediate feel- 
ing, and ultimate disposition. 

Daily practice of formal hypnosis with sug- 
gestions by a professional operator would not 
be as effectual as suggestions given by a parent 
when the child is going to sleep and continued 
after it is asleep. An adult is just as suggestible 
in these states as is a child. 

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Parents would have a justifiable horror of 
placing a child where he would be subject to 
hypnosis and adverse suggestions either as to 
its health or its character; yet these very same 
parents often present imagery just as destructive, 
under circumstances more sure to impress the 
child, thinking that there is no danger, especially 
if the child does not hear them talking. 

There is another situation where one is thor- 
oughly suggestible (and it is really impossible to 
say that of these three states one is more sug- 
gestible than the other), and that is when one is 
in an emotional state. It matters not as to the 
character of the emotion or what caused it, 
suggestions can be placed directly into the sub- 
conscious mind, which will be involuntarily car- 
ried out after the emotion has subsided. The 
psychology of this is that, in the emotional state, 
the subconscious is made accessible, is en- 
throned, the objective temporarily being in abey- 
ance. 

The revivalist uses his deathbed stories to 
arouse his hearers' emotions, and then gives them 
a suggestion to accept his religious formula, al- 
though there is no relationship between the sub- 
ject that caused the emotion and the thing he 
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get excited in a political meeting, and the speaker 
gives them a suggestion to support his party, 
and they do so in spite of their subsequent ra- 
tional objections. Just the name of a cause be- 
comes sufficient to arouse their strongest support 
or awaken their bitterest aversion. 

But neither religion nor political emotions or 
suggestions are of great importance here except 
as illustrations of the fact that, being brought 
into any sort of emotion, from any cause what- 
soever, prepares one for suggestions of any sort 
as perfectly as does the deepest hypnosis. 

At one time I had as a patient a young mother, 
who listened to a description given by a neigh- 
boring woman of a mother who, when her child 
was seven months old, had a fit of insanity, in 
which she injured her baby. My patient got 
much excited, and, while in the emotional state, 
aroused the auto-suggestion, "What if I should 
ever get like that?" The idea continued to re- 
turn, taking deeper hold upon her from day to 
day until she became afraid to be left alone lest 
she should do that same terrible thing to her 
child. I put her into a passive state and sug- 
gested away the perilous strain she was under. 
Another patient of mine was reading an inter- 
preted lift of Christ which in some way made 

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her emotional over the subject of spirits. She 
intensely thought upon what it would mean to 
her to be controlled by such a spirit as she read 
about. The idea took deep hold upon her, and 
she finally gave up to it, losing her mental bal- 
ance altogether. In presenting these illustra- 
tions of how we may fix ruinous tendencies upon 
ourselves by the things we suggest to ourselves 
when in emotional states, I have made it un- 
necessary to undertake much further to show 
how things, it matters not how untrue or re- 
pulsive, when suggested to us in strong words 
during a passive or an emotional state, may be 
fulfilled by us involuntarily afterwards. Many a 
well-disposed child has been aroused by repri- 
mand into strong emotion and then accused of 
badness, which it apparently was afterwards un- 
able to avoid. Under such conditions, a sugges- 
tion goes directly to that part of us which gives 
ready response without asking permission from 
the will. 

Recognizing the peculiar suggestibility of 
humanity when in emotional states, we can real- 
ize how lasting injury can be done a child who 
has worried and cried over his books by telling 
him he is stupid and altogether too dull to learn. 
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energies only to find that it paralyzes him. The 
suggestion follows him and makes it impossible 
for him to get hold of his studies. 

Anything like a curse, a condemnation, or a 
severe criticism of another when he is in an 
emotional state, may be literally and seemingly 
irresistibly fulfilled in him. 

A sufferer from a simple ailment goes to a 
physician for aid. Being in an emotional state, 
he is liable to magnify the gravity of his com- 
plaint and develop under such adverse sugges- 
tions a really serious disease. Some physicians 
will not give a diagnosis until the patient's emo- 
tions have been allayed. 

Our illustrations, it will be noted, have been 
those proceeding from adverse suggestion, but 
the reader must not infer that, in emotional 
states, can one be influenced in no other than an 
adverse way. Any suggestible state prepares one 
for being favorably affected by good as well as 
bad suggestions. Even when in anger one can 
effectively receive kindly suggestions from an- 
other ; or if he himself will resolutely and vividly 
summon beautiful imagery, the suggestion thus 
given will exercise a control for harmony over 
his ensuing states and actions. 

There is just one other phase of suggestibility 

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that I care to allude to now, and that is that an 
individual is susceptible to the suggestions he 
gives to his own soul by the imagery that he 
allows to predominate in his own mind. The 
catalogue of a man's conclusions, formed by his 
own mind, fixes the standards of his spon- 
taneous actions. Our automatism testifies to 
what our conclusions have been. What we have 
gone over in mind many times and forgotten is 
what we involuntarily express. The soul is the 
department of character, and our thoughts, when 
we are through holding them consciously, must 
find lodgment in the soul; therefore by our 
imagery, we are constantly making character. 
I would that all the world could be brought to 
hold constructive imagery, for then the soul could 
be wholly under the impulse to build and we 
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CHAPTER IX. 
Suggestion in Reforming 

Thus far I have indicated the great value of 
practical psychology when pertaining to the phy- 
sical body. I now want to consider the subject 
of the relation of psychology, especially with the 
department of suggestion to character modify- 
ing. 

The value of suggestion as a science in moral 
reform is beginning to be appreciated, and I 
hope to have every parent, teacher and other 
good citizen educated to the possibilities of the 
subjective mind and how to use it in the chang- 
ing and building of character. 

I recall an excellent illustration of this in my 
personal experience during my early days of 
practice when I was using the hypnotic state as 
a means to the best result in all kinds of sug- 
gestive treatments. A young man of 18 years 
came to answer to an advertisement of mine, 
which called for subjects that I could use in my 
class work in demonstration. He was so thor- 
oughly degenerate in appearance that I was on 
the point of dismissing him without investigating 
as to his adaptability to my needs, when it oc- 
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cover whether the germ of good ever does com- 
pletely die out. Every character of evil habits, 
mentionable or otherwise, and dissipations and 
excesses in every form, were easily discerned. 
I first developed him in such a way as to give 
every physical demonstration, such as anesthesia 
and catalepsy, also the various phenomena in 
hallucinations. I gave him suggestions which 
he accepted, which prevented him from remem- 
bering, when in the active state, what was said 
or done during his hypnotic state. After he had 
been thoroughly developed as a subject I began 
suggesting to him that he would begin to think 
about changing his habits. Even though he was 
in a deep passivity and I began talking upon his 
changing his desires, his countenance would in- 
dicate his amusement at such an idea. I saw no 
promise of immediate response to any sugges- 
tions, but one day he mentioned to me about 
a certain companion whose intentions were of 
such a nature that the boy and I agreed that 
he would certainly get into serious trouble and 
receive punishment. I advised my subject to 
caution the young man, and if possible prevent 
him from the evil thing. My boy was interested 
and engaged himself in behalf of his companion 
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keep him out of his trouble. I followed the line 
indicated here, telling him we would go into 
further partnerships to help his friends, and pos- 
sibly we might get them out of many wrong 
ways. My experience with this youth, who was 
so thorough a reprobate and beyond having any 
interest in himself, except to gamble and ca- 
rouse, yet who would take an interest in helping 
his associates into better ways, proves that every 
individual is a savior. After succeeding in inter- 
esting him in the other individual, I suggested 
to him that if he and I were to help others that 
surely we ourselves should be what we advised 
and required them to be. He responded to my 
suggestion, and of himself asked that I would 
help him get rid of his tendencies and overcome 
the habits so far as it was possible. He was an 
incessant gambler with cards. He seldom had 
any money except small winnings, and he scarce- 
ly purchased for himself even necessary cloth- 
ing. To assist him in freeing himself from his 
associations, I gave him a hypnotic suggestion 
that he could not shuffle the cards; that his 
fingers would involuntarily stick to the card. 
He reported to me that he did not know what 
was the matter with him, that he could not pick 
up or let go of the cards, and that his com- 

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panions had put him out, because they thought 
he was only making fun of them. I gave him 
suggestions that he would have no desires for 
the place, that it would be a physical impossi- 
bility for him to lift a glass containing alcoholic 
liquors of any kind to his lips; also that the 
odors, as well as the taste of any such stuff, 
would make him desperately sick at the stomach. 
All of this proved out in his experience. These 
physical aids were very helpful, and made it 
much easier to correct his habits than it would 
have been had we left the body demanding that 
which had been the occasion of habit. By chang- 
ing his desires from fondness to disgust, or 
physical inability to perform or enjoy, we made 
the treatment much more sure. These sugges- 
tions and others that he needed, I gave him 
within a period of about six months. At the 
end of that time he had greatly improved in his 
appearance, and very little resembled his former 
self in his aspirations. Where he simply would 
not work under any circumstances, he had now 
become a good citizen and gone to work in the 
iron works. The reform of this young man 
would scarcely have taken place, even though I 
had put him in the hypnotic state, had I not first 
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then changing his own practices in order to be 
consistent with what he was advising others. 
The first suggestions I gave him did not even 
awaken aspirations, but only aroused contempt. 
I should like to give instances here leading to 
the discovery of how we are inherently disposed 
to help one another. I presume I would best 
make plain some features that belong to such 
cases. There is no objection to the hypnotic 
state under any circumstances, but as so few 
understand it correctly, it is well that any stu- 
dent of this sub jest should be fully assured that 
the hypnotic state is not essential, but that a 
passive state is ample for the purposes. Sug- 
gestions repeatedly given go just as deep, when 
the individual is passive and hears the sugges- 
tions, as when in the deep stages of hypnosis. 
The superficial individual might say that this 
boy was reformed against his will. In fact, a 
man claiming the title of M. D. published an 
article saying that I did a most reprehensible 
thing in changing this boy from a vagabond who 
had no hesitancy at any crime or practice, into 
a well-appearing, neatly kept, industrious, good 
citizen; he said that in doing this I had de- 
throned his will. The soul or the real self had 
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ward became. It is true his objective, or sense 
department preferred or willed to the contrary. 
Of course, with the exception of reform in- 
stitutions, not many of us would have oppor- 
tunity to treat such extreme moral conditions, 
but the lesson is here for every one, which is, 
to realize that just as exactly as there is the 
healing power in the patient with reference to 
his own body, and that power operates under 
suggestion, just so does that power abide in the 
individual -with reference to his own habits or 
character. Then after we recognize the power 
and where it is, and under what law it acts, we 
are prepared to remove from or add to the 
habits or traits, whether they are for small 
changes or great reforms. Again, I want my 
reader to avail himself of the principles that 
have been revealed to me in my laboratory work, 
for although the hypnotic state was used in this 
particular illustration, the inestimable value of 
our lesson is in learning the principle. We see 
how the force of habit had become the prevail- 
ing suggestion that overwhelmed this boy's life. 
He not only willed to do wrong, but after his 
inclinations were changed he did wrong many 
times involuntarily. To assist in overcoming 
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want to do, I gave him the suggestion that made 
it a physical impossibility to perform certain 
acts. This supported him while he was gaining 
spiritual strength. 

A practical lesson for the parent when he or 
she sees from this case that the power in the 
child is the soul, and is controlled by suggestion. 
The soul compels expression that it has been 
made to really expect. If that expectancy, or 
habit, in the soul is something that should be 
corrected, we find that suggestions or ideas in- 
troduced to the soul changing or determining 
expectancy, will work the change regardless of 
the method used in introducing the new idea. 

The parent has every opportunity to give these 
suggestions in the most forceful way. Let the 
child or other person go to sleep, while you give 
suggestions in form of conversation, or prophe- 
cies, that the habit or symptom will disappear. 
Though this may seem to be so simple as to 
appear foolish, yet it is being demonstrated in 
thousands of instances that the result comes as 
predicted. Again, we are proving a principle, 
for if the soul is the power and is controllable 
by suggestion and the child or other person be- 
comes an expression of whatever is the ruling 
suggestion in his soul, then if the suggestion 

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is impressed upon him, whether he is passive 
or active, or under emotion, it makes no differ- 
ence as to the result. It is true that in the 
active state one is not so susceptible to sugges- 
tion, yet if the active mind is made to absolutely 
believe, which it has a tendency to do under the 
constant impress of a picture, then the sugges- 
tion constantly repeated in his hearing may get 
to his soul, after which it comes out in ex- 
pression voluntarily. Learning all that is em- 
braced in these principles, the wrong suggestions 
will cease to be given to children or to others, 
and the avoidance of unseemly word pictures 
will be rigidly observed. Almost every home 
needs revision under these revelations, for the 
family conversation, contentions and predictions, 
as interchanged between members of the house- 
hold, would be regarded as actual realizations 
that sooner or later would be complete. 

We give and take suggestions in our daily 
lives. So we must come to this conclusion based 
upon scientific demonstration, that the highest 
possibilities of the individual can only be at- 
tained when we say to ourselves or others, only 
the words that represent what we would, under 
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CHAPTER X. 
Science of Telepathy 

The conveyance of messages by wireless 
telegraphy is based upon the phenomena of ether ; 
that substance, so fine in its particle that it per- 
meates all matter, has demonstrated to us that 
there is no such thing as a solid, and also that 
there is no true vacuum since either is every- 
where. 

Ether meets with no obstruction in the dia- 
mond, nor in the enamel of the teeth, which is 
harder, but would pass through the pores. Only 
by thinking of some other subtle substances can 
we form much appreciation of this ultra-material 
substance, imperceptible to the senses. We can 
remove almost all of the atmospheres from with- 
in an enclosure, but not the ether; nothing can 
exclude that. Scientists say that luminiferous 
either must penetrate between the atoms and 
exist in the pores of every transparent substance, 
else light could not travel through it. 

From the point of view that either is seven 
hundred thousand times more rare than our air, 
the resistance would be six hundred million 
times less than that of water, which reduces 
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effect upon the motion of planets in many thou- 
sands of years is concerned. 

The earth is pointed out as an example of a 
frictionless, moving body. It is to be hoped 
that the inventor will continue his study until it is 
revealed to him how to produce machinery, that 
will work without friction. But the earth phe- 
nomenon of no friction is due to the properties 
of this sensitive ether, for sensitive it must be 
and therefore subject to change in its vibratory 
rate, by the slightest cause. 

Wireless telegraphy is supportive of the wave 
theory of light, sound, etc., which of course pre- 
supposes that there is something to wave. If it 
is eight minutes after the waves set out from 
the sun before they strike the eye, then there 
must be in space some medium that conveys 
them. 

A wave being defined as a disturbance, periodic 
both in space and time, anything is a wave that 
is doubly periodic, whether in air as sound 
waves or in ether as light waves. In ether as 
waves of various lengths and speed carry the 
wireless code, just as waves do on the surface of 
the water. 

The properties essential to the transmission of 
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thing that can act through these properties can 
be the source of waves. Accordingly we say, 
that anything that can cause a displacement of 
ether will start waves. The mechanism of the 
wireless is an electric power and discharge, sup- 
portive of a vibrator, which displaces ether, cre- 
ating waves of a length and speed that are as 
symbols constituting an agreed code. Having 
a transmitter that will vibrate in such a manner 
then the transmission and receipt of such a mes- 
sage is only dependent upon a sensitive receiver 
that is in attunement with the transmitter. Men 
have constructed and exercised transmitters and 
receivers, successfully imparting information to 
each other, when they were hundreds and even 
thousands of miles apart. Such phenomena hav- 
ing been demonstrated it would be foolish to ar- 
gue as to the possibility of transmitting messages 
without any sensible medium existing between 
the points of sending and receiving. 

Telepathy is a better known phenomenon, be- 
cause more generally demonstrated than that of 
which I have just written, and therefore I trust 
no one will think I have become argumentative 
and am trying to prove the existence of such 
communication, between people. While any sub- 
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my laboratory. Conjectures and mere opinions 
I do not publish. Conclusions, facts and formu- 
las pertaining to the subject now under discus- 
sion, will have all of our attention. 

Only after understanding something of the 
medium and the law of thought transmission can 
there be the largest benefits enjoyed. Telepathy 
is another psychic phenomenon, whose best bless- 
ing attends upon faith following knowledge. 

Telepathy, or the transference of thought be- 
tween individuals through other than objective 
means, is obtained through waves of the ether in 
the same as with wireless telegraphy. It is due 
to displacement of ether in the sense, that the 
mechanism of the telegraph results in a displace- 
ment of ether, in such a manner as to create sym- 
bols that can be pereceived and interpreted. 

We have to dismiss the idea of "separation with 
nothing between to connect us," for, though not 
as tangible as a wire, it is as material and as 
actual. If we are within the reach of each other's 
voice we communicate audibly. Through atmos- 
pheric waves, of which we are not conscious, we 
become objectively conscious of the result. Ethe- 
ric waves that carry our soul's impulses are just 
as scientific, but, not being always conscious of 

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the result, we do not make as good use of the 
law of telepathy as we could or should. 

The mechanism of man with a dual mind can 
impress the ether waves. To get conception of 
this idea you may recall the impression that cen- 
tered attention may make upon much coarser par- 
ticles than those of ether. The temperature of 
any part of the body may be changed by fixation 
of attention upon that part. This involves the 
rearrangement of cells. Under mental excite- 
ment the heart may beat so violently ttfet it will 
cause a building to tremble. Depressed emo- 
tional states, as of anger, fear, worry or jealousy, 
reverse the chemistry of the tissues, secretions 
and general products of the body. The cellular, 
molecular, atomic and etherial changes essential 
to these, are a million times greater than would 
be necessary, in order to impress the sensitive 
ether within and without the body either to send 
out the soul's impulse to another, or to throw it 
out to be received by any one who is in rapport 
(attunement) with it. 

I think it is possible to explain to another all 
of the physics of thought transmission, but 
whether the reader comprehends it perfectly or 
not he will find much help in grasping the idea 
that people are immersed in the same great sea 

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of ether which brings them into communication 
which could not be made more intimate by a wire 
within reach of the hands of all. There is in 
man all that is essential to impress the elastic and 
inert properties of ether. Every man is a trans- 
mitter and receiver and the character and degree 
of thought received by one from another is de- 
pendent only upon rapport ; and, the basis of rap- 
port is sympathy. When sympathy is established 
between persons they become susceptible to im- 
pression by the same vibratory rate. Fear of an- 
other, or fear that he can injure you by his 
thought power, creates a susceptibility of the same 
sort. Enmity between people breaks up their 
rapport ; therefore no one really has cause to fear 
the evil power of another's thought. Harmony 
or agreement, being the basis of rapport, the 
more thorough the sympathy and the larger the 
scope of the harmony, the better the rapport. 

Scientific Absent Treatment 

Then, since the laws of telepathy are under- 
stood and capable of scientific application, absent 
treatment can be successfully conducted. To this 
end there are certain concepts, which, when had 
by operator and patient, very greatly aid results. 
As the idea of separation with nothing to connect 

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is found incorrect, so is the idea of distance cre- 
ating absence in a measure, erroneous. If an 
individual with whom I wish to communicate is 
within the sound of my voice, I use the objective 
means of conveying my ideas, by mentally com- 
manding my soul to exercise my vocal organs in 
such a manner as to impress the atmosphere. The 
scientist says that the ether, probably, with waves 
of a length and speed to affect his auditory organ- 
ism with sounds, forms an assemblage of sounds 
which may constitute words. When he is beyond 
the impress of these coarse waves then I resort 
to that which will make finer waves in the sensi- 
tive stratum of ether. I do this by resorting to 
the subjective entirely, instead of the partly ob- 
jective method as in spoken communication. 

Among the score of questions you will be asked 
how is this, What is the reason, then, that people 
as a rule are not conscious of more telepathic 
communication than they are? The reason is 
this: Telepathy is subjective. Subconscious 
communication, is, communication between the 
souls of individuals ; therefore, there may be not 
the slightest perception of the transmitted 
thought, since it may never rise to the threshold 
of consciousness. It is not essential that it should 
rise to consciousness in the instance of treatment, 

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for the operator transmits the impulses to the 
subconsciousness of the patient, which is the de- 
partment that does the healing. 

The real process is this ; the definite suggestion 
to be transmitted is formulated in the conscious 
mind of the operator, and then, instead of trying 
with that department of the mind to send the 
message to the patient, he aims to impress his 
subconscious mind with the whole matter, and 
in the hands of his subconsciousness, he leaves it. 

It must be apparent from this that a patient 
should choose an operator with care, if he is to be 
treated telepathically, for it means to establish 
rapport, to receive suggestions and to act upon 
them, which suggestions he may never be con- 
scious of and yet be unconsciously influenced by 
them. Just how many moral and physical dis- 
eases have their source in the anxious, doubting 
and fearing attitudes of our friends will be a sub- 
ject for the future ; but, just as the physician who 
is believed in, can, by an untrue diagnosis cause 
more disease than previously existed, so may the 
ignorant operator who has been received into the 
relationship of physician, treat telepathically, form 
the wrong imagery and disturb cell functioning 
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CHAPTER XL 
Evil Thought Transference 

It seems that every good that has ever ex- 
isted has been contorted with evil brought from 
it in some way. The department of psychology 
comprehending thought transference is no ex- 
ception to this rule. Ignorance, as usual, is at 
the base of the wrong. 

Immediately upon the announcement and the 
demonstration that thought was transmitted from 
one and received by another, and that often heal- 
ing was, without doubt, a result of such inter- 
change, it was promulgated that of course there 
was nothing to limit the power, and that if a 
thought could be a beneficial agent in the hands 
of a physician who desired to cure a patient, 
that it would be just as great a power, and could 
be exercised just as effectually, by one with evil 
intent. 

If the student had been acute he would have 
understood, from previous chapters, that which 
would have confirmed him in the assurance that 
a man cannot bring disaster through telepathy 
into the life of his enemy for the very reason 
that enmity shuts off rapport. A second most 
potent reason is that the soul of man is exer- 

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cising its functions for sustaining an equilibrium, 
moral and physical, and is not so open to de- 
structive agencies as to those that are uplifting. 
We have shown throughout the book that rap- 
port itself is based upon love and sympathy. I 
have spoken so frequently of the necessity for 
the receiver to be in attunement with the trans- 
mitter. A man is in no danger through thought 
transference, however powerful a concentrator 
his opponent may be, but he is in great danger 
through his friends, who are in rapport with 
him and send him the depressing and the un- 
favorable thought, and because of their perfect 
rapport, plant the wrong expectancy in him. 

Again I am called upon to repeat the state- 
ment that we suffer most at the hands of our 
nearest and dearest, through their ignorance of 
the laws governing the psychic forces. The 
statement that I made in a lecture some time ago, 
that the nation probably was responsible for the 
death of Senator Hanna, which statement was 
published in the newspapers throughout the coun- 
try, was based upon the thousands upon thou- 
sands of his friends believing the unfavorable 
bulletins, and through their sympathetic rapport 
caused the great preponderance of mental power 
to be on the negative side. 

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When a man's soul is exercising to its fullest 
limit, in its effort to keep the body tenantable, 
and receives a single discouraging suggestion 
from one powerful and sympathetic suggestor, 
who says there is no hope, and believes with all 
his soul that the patient will not recover, an 
obstacle has been put in his way that so increases 
physical and mental depression that the resisting 
power is not adequate. If it be true that one or 
two persons near and dear, and therefore in 
close rapport with the patient, can add that which 
overburdens the vital force, what must be the 
effect upon the power within a man's body when, 
helpless and hopeless expectancy is poured into 
his soul by the thousands, as in the instance of a 
public personage? Had there been no reports 
of the senator's illness, or could they have been 
of a tenor to create an expectancy of recovery, 
then there would have been good reasoning and 
science to justify the belief that he need not have 
died. If the senator had had one-half of the 
nation at enmity with him, and had they con- 
centrated with all their powers, day and night, 
they could not have affected him in the least 
through their power, because the conditions of 
rapport were not complied with. 

However, we must see and take into proper 

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consideration what the possibilities are through 
the ignorance of the patient. The proposition 
in exactness is this: That if a man or patient 
believes that his enemies have the power over 
him, and are exercising it, then he comes to a 
fulfillment and realization of the condition that 
corresponds to what he believes they are en- 
deavoring to and are able to do. 

There have been thousands upon thousands 
of deaths even, to say nothing of disease and dis- 
aster, resulting from that auto-suggestion. Per- 
sons have experienced disease, disaster and death 
when they believed that a curse had been put 
upon them, and that an enemy, or a number of 
persons were exercising influences over them. 

There is one way by which the twentieth cen- 
tury can pass back to reflect the sixteenth, and 
the way to fall back to that standard is to let it 
become a general belief that a person can be 
evilly influenced by his enemies. It is not a sur- 
prise that it is a man's own belief, and the ex- 
pectancy of his own soul, that either blesses or 
curses him, for that is the law of the soul that 
that which it believes, it will bring into ex- 
pression. 

In the centuries, including the fifteenth and 
part of the seventeenth, there were thousands 

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of persons burned at the stake as witches. These 
witches, it was claimed, were in league with 
the devil. They were said to hold intimate re- 
lationship as his agents, and would have their 
midnight revels with him. Infants were snatched 
from their mother's arms and literally torn to 
pieces because they were supposed to be the 
agents of the evil one who was causing disease 
and death in the vicinity. Don't stop, but read 
on past the statement that I am about to make, 
that hundreds of people were made ill and even 
died because of these so-called witches. 

It does not take much intelligence to see that 
it was not the actual power of the witches that 
caused the disturbance, but it was believing that 
the witches had that power over them and fear- 
ing them on that account. 

There are many people who pass for having 
some intelligence, and yet who are accepting a 
teaching as diabolical and untrue as the old be- 
lief in witches, and that is believing and teaching 
that a man's enemies can will him into mis- 
fortune. Let the belief become general that the 
telepathic power is such as to equip one for 
bringing misfortune into another's life, and upon 
every hand he will find that whenever one is sick, 
is disappointed commercially, or meets with an 

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accident, he will be ready to accuse some one 
whom he thinks is displeased with him, of being 
the cause of his unfortunate experience. 

A man might plow through any icy slush of 
melting snow, with wet feet all day, and at night 
go home and have a chill, followed by high tem- 
perature, subsequently developing a typical case 
of pneumonia, and yet ascribe it all to an evil 
thought of some enemy. This is just how un- 
reasonable people have become. 

It is a law of the soul that whatsoever a man 
sows, that shall he also reap, that is, the law 
of cause and effect. The real science of it is this : 
the suggestion that you give another, spoken or 
in thought, is received by your own soul, and 
unconsciously or involuntarily, so far as your 
mind is concerned, your soul brings your mind 
and body into those conditions and experiences 
that you suggest to another. A literal demon- 
stration of this principle was given me through 
a pupil of mine, who, in practicing treatment, 
had occasion to treat a man for the habit of 
alcoholism. He was aiming to follow the for- 
mula that I had given him, in which he said to 
the man in the passive state : 

"Liquor, in any form, is nasty, filthy, nauseat- 
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ing you sick at your stomach even at sight of it 
and the odor of it will be intolerable to you. 
You will not want liquor, and you will not suffer 
any from giving it up." The operator was not 
an excessive drinker, but used it temperately, and 
he assures me that upon an effort to take his 
usual toddy, he became so sick at his stomach 
that he had to give it up and could not drink it. 

The soul acts upon the principle that what 
you suggest to another must be the proper thing 
for yourself, or you would not give it to one 
of whom you are a part, and of course the prin- 
ciples of psychology, as here set forth, teach the 
common brotherhood of man. 

We will close this chapter with the final state- 
ment that there is no possibility of one with an 
evil intent bringing any disaster into the life of 
the object of his evil desire, excepting through 
the auto-suggestion of the person to whom he 
has directed his aim, in the form of the belief 
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CHAPTER XII. 
Psychic Powers 

The development of psychics, whatever their 
purpose, is practically the same. An exception 
might be in that we need to emphasize the sug- 
gestion in those who have commercial purposes, 
to fit them for establishing rapport instantly with 
those who desire their services, and give the sug- 
gestion that they will be able to do this ; that the 
instant they meet a person they will receive an 
impress of that one, and the impress immediately 
communicates itself to the consciousness. 

During the development it would be well if 
the operator would, in cases I am now describ- 
ing, call in a number of other persons in order 
to see that they are able to do this, for the ex- 
ercise during the development being only with 
the operator, would not give the psychic suffi- 
cient variety of personalities to practice the rap- 
port upon. 

The natural adaptation, owing to peculiarities 
of the psychic's tendencies, may fit her for one 
line of reading better than another. I have found 
some, who were especially adept in diagnosing 
disease, others in character reading, others who 
were excellent at following the course of one's 

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life in the past, and again others who would sel- 
dom go into the past at all, but would describe 
the experiences, that were in the future. 

They foretell of journeys and business trans- 
actions, involving descriptions of persons, their 
peculiarities, the result of contact with them, 
many times giving peculiarities, of personal ex- 
terior, not simply as to the type, but mannerisms 
and peculiarities of dress, and yet the one who 
was receiving this information through the 
psychic had no objective knowledge of any of 
the persons. They had not conceived of the idea 
of the journey or the transaction in any way, so 
it could not be accounted for on the basis of the 
object of the reading having received the im- 
pression concerning those things through telepa- 
thic messages from such people, that he might 
meet some months hence. 

It is inherent in the soul to know its experi- 
ences in advance, at least many months. These 
things have come to me personally, too often to 
be coincidences. 

A careful observation of the data, with no pur- 
pose to prove the proposition, but to know the 
truth of it, has characterized my daily effort. My 
experience is worth more to me than it is to any- 
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intend, at present, to push the argument or pre- 
sent the data in the detail that the subject might 
warrant. I will give you the plan by which you 
can as well demonstrate it for yourself, as to 
accept my experiences a settling the question. 

As stated before, I have had some psychics 
whose strong point was to go into the future. 
Literally and briefly, the proposition is, that the 
soul knows its future. I mean by future that 
which shall occur to the individual while in the 
present environment. I have no occasion to take 
up the question as to his knowledge or his con- 
dition in the next. 

Now I am not pretending to state that he 
knows, from the instant of his birth, his whole 
life, or that he will know at ten the history he 
will make up to sixty. I have not demonstrated 
how long a time, so that I can fix it definitely, 
but in personal experience, things have been fore- 
told which I had no possibility of accounting for 
on the basis of accident or coincidence, some 
years ahead. 

Many minds would be satisfied that the prin- 
ciples were perfect, if the sub-conscious foretold 
one day or thirty days in advance. 

Now, in taking up the question of psychic phe- 
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that I approve of all the methods of fortune- 
telling, or that I am endorsing any man or wom- 
an, or either his or her method. I simply want 
to consider the phenomena that are so common 
and create consternation in many instances. 

One person will take a crystal, and, gazing 
upon it for a while, speak truths concerning the 
experiences in the past life of someone with 
whom she is in rapport, and usually who is pres- 
ent, and in her revelations will go into the future 
and will make certain statements. There will be 
a certain percentage, possibly a small percentage 
only, that will be true. 

Another may take the coffee or tea grounds 
and give the same sort of data, with the same 
percentage of truth. 

Another will gaze into the fire. They have 
been doing this ever since the experience of 
Moses and the burning bush, and probably long 
before, but the data is of the same class and 
character as that obtained by the other means 
mentioned. 

The Indian will take his hands full of animal 
tusks, birds' claws and beaks or pebbles, throw 
them upon the ground, and he will give you much 
of your past, your present, and often will fore- 
tell your future quite accurately. 

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The Egyptian may use shells, bark, or the 
talisman, or he may depend upon astrology and 
its relationship to your date of birth. At any 
rate he very often will give you an excellent char- 
acter reading and a history of important events 
and changes in your life, and the most prom- 
inent and impressive points of your future. 

Another will take the ordinary playing cards^ 
with each card representing a word 5 or term, the 
combining of many together making complete 
sentences. The one who is receiving the reading 
mixes the cards, and the reader with his or her 
acquaintance with the alphabetical meaning of the 
cards, will give the same information that any 
and all of these others have given. 

The palmist, with the best education as such, 
while giving peculiar facts, possibly as to the 
tendencies to disease, and finding, as he thinks, 
in the palm, the tendencies that should be, or 
would be, followed or overcome, yet with his 
phraseology and the allowance made for some 
peculiarities, he invariably goes into the past, 
present and future to about the same degree that 
the others do by their different methods. 

The spirit medium will give practically the 
same, if she is a good psychic. 

I shall now refer to, "the psychic who, with no 

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other pretensions, and without devices of any- 
kind, or even a belief in any other things than 
her own mind and soul, will give the same, sub- 
stantially, that the others do, but with more ac- 
curacy and with a larger percentage of success. 
In her foretellings, nine-tenths, at least, may be 
correct. 

With about a dozen different methods, all to- 
tally unlike, yet all obtaining about the same sort 
of phenomena, one is convinced that there is a 
common source of the knowledge somewhere. It 
certainly is not in the fire, in the coffee grounds, 
in the pebbles and claws, or the stars, neither in 
the lines of the hand, nor in the cards, but we 
know that all of these are the means of obtaining 
knowledge from the sub-conscious mind. 

In all of these instances, there has been a per- 
son whom we call a medium giving the informa- 
tion. If there is no psychic power in the person 
who attempts to give information, through any 
of the above means, there is no data obtained, 
either as to the past, present or future, which is 
correct, except by one method and that is the 
cards. 

If a reader, or one who claims to be able to 
read, has a meaning ascribed to each card, and 
to a combination of cards, there will be data of 

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the same character obtained, but not as perfect 
or as extensive as the psychic will give. 

I have had under my observation several psy- 
chics who had this alphabetical knowledge of 
cards. I recall one who was not a psychic, for 
illustration, who would read that a man of cer- 
tain description was going to pay money for 
medicine and doctor's services, according to the 
literal meaning of the cards. In the same in- 
stance, a person who was also psychical, in look- 
ing at that card, would give the disease, the 
amount of money that he would pay, and in 
various details, describe the person. 

To illustrate the meaning of this latter, a lady 
who was being developed as a psychic, in look- 
ing at the cards which I had mixed and cut as 
she directed, read out of them that "a light man 
with a peculiar shade of light hair, with red face, 
above the average in height, robust, will come 
wearing a light overcoat. He will have a pe- 
culiar malady that has nonplussed him and all 
of his physicians, will be twenty-eight years of 
age, will come a short journey, crossing water, 
and will, after consultation, desire treatment, but 
is not financially situated at present to take it." 

It was six days after this date that the young 
man came, fulfilling every detail exactly, even 

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to the peculiarity of his disorder, which had 
caused confusion wherever he had been. 

Where did she get the information? Under 
the old teachings, she would have gone to East 
St. Louis, seen the man and would have found 
all of these facts. 

The man informed me that he had learned of 
me two weeks before he was able to come, al- 
though determined from the first that he would 
do so as soon as he could. He had seen my pic- 
ture, and had heard read some extracts from my 
lectures, which caused him to decide on his visit. 

I had been the object of his thought. I see 
no reason to support that this lady had peculiar 
powers of receiving information from the soul 
of one, who had no reason to come in touch with 
her, whereas it is a straight and simple process, 
if soul reading be true at all, for me to have re- 
ceived the communication, being the object of 
his desire, and she, being in full rapport with 
me, was able to obtain the full information. Be- 
sides, meeting him was to be an experience of 
mine, so I had the knowledge sub-consciously. 

Now a single individual can take the cards and 
fix upon any alphabetical meaning he pleases, and 
mixing the cards and cutting them according to 
any form he may wish to adopt, will obtain for 

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himself the same data that is given by another 
person who might be able to give only the lit- 
eral, alphabetical meaning of the cards. All this 
brings it down to this fact: that the cards come 
in as a medium by which the person may become 
conscious of what the sub-conscious holds. In 
mixing the cards and cutting them, the person 
involuntarily mixes and cuts in such a way as to 
give the true story. 

I know all that one would say from the stand- 
point of his reason when he first hears a propo- 
sition and cannot see how there can be any merit 
therein, but those lifeless cards become as a writ- 
ten epistle containing history and prophecy. I 
have watched the phenomena carefully for years, 
and have kept in writing, accurate data concern- 
ing the card experiments. I find that a very 
large percentage of the statements made to me 
correct through the cards as a medium. 

To my mind, with the knowledge that I have 
that all the forces and the functions of the body 
are controlled by the soul, and that the soul knows 
all, it is easy to regard the cards as simply the 
medium of communication between the sub-con- 
scious, which knows all, and the conscious mind 
which brings the knowledge to us. Now this is 
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leads to such marvelous results to the man or 
woman who is getting truth concerning the laws 
of the soul, that I would advise one to satisfy 
himself, concerning the experiment, if he wants 
to regard it as such, before he goes off in his su- 
perior way and says there can be nothing in it. 
You do not have to use playing cards, but take 
ordinary visiting cards and make up your own 
alphabet, if you prefer, writing on any card any 
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CHAPTER XIII. 
Chemistry of Emotions 

In many portions of this book, reference is 
made to the soul being the power that presides 
over the bodily functions and desires. We want 
now to give particular attention to its power over 
the substances of the body, and its forces. 

Our attention, as chemists, has been more at- 
tracted by the pathological changes in the secre- 
tions of the body through our emotional states. 
Therefore, there is not as much general data to 
be secured demonstrating the wholesome effect 
of the good emotions. On the other hand we 
have such experiences as anger, fear, jealousy, 
and all dark passions which change the alkaline 
secretions to acid and the acid to alkaline. These 
tests have been made particularly with the per- 
spiration and the digestive secretions. Then 
there is that common experience, in which the 
above emotions produce such changes in the 
mother's milk as to poison the child at her breast. 

Anyone giving a second thought to a process 
which by stirring up the emotional nature can 
produce a poisonous condition in milk, will agree 
that there must have been a change in the cells 
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in the mind that presides over the cells in the 
body. 

Now if a few minutes' spasm of passion can 
produce such profound changes in the chemistry 
of the body, what must be expected if there is 
constant morbidness, the soul always being in 
gloom and expecting the unfavorable. 

These sudden and temporary emotional states 
make the changes indicated immediately. The 
chemical distribution and its natural offices be- 
ing thwarted, blood, and therefore nutrition, 
hence every tissue of the body, undergoes depre- 
ciation, from the standard of perfect health, be- 
fore reaction can come. 

It is inherent in the vital force to counteract 
the disorder and establish peace and harmony 
in the system, but how often, before such an 
equilibrium is restored, is one given to hearing 
or seeing something, or through some of the 
other faculties, which causes the objective mind 
to pass on to the soul some conclusion of irrita- 
tion or unwholesome emotion. Thus one such 
wave after another, in the irritable, or jealous 
or fearing person follows in such close relation- 
ship as to make it impossible to ever establish 
the right conditions in the body. 

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are followed by tissue changes, in which the ele- 
ments of the cells become incomplete. Wrong 
compounds are present in the various tissues, and 
a depleted system, nervous exhaustion, inanition, 
mal-nutrition, anemia, a generally lowered stand- 
ard throughout the whole organism, as well as a 
proportionate decrease of power of resistance, 
are the results. All of these conditions are con- 
ducive to the appearance of disease, which will 
most profoundly affect that portion of the sys- 
tem, that is in the lower degree of resistance. 

Tuberculosis is typical of all the wasting dis- 
eases, any one of which may have had its origin 
in the lack of self-control, a giving away to an- 
ger, fear or jealousy, or any other evil passion. 
These fatal issues had their beginning in a change 
of the chemistry of the secretions of the body 
because of an unwholesome emotion, and that 
which might have been very fleeting as a cause, 
is eternal in its effect. 

Getting a faint glimpse of some such idea as 
this, caused the old metaphysicians to classify 
the various diseases that followed upon, or found 
their correspondence to mental states, stating, for 
instance, that impatience or covetousness would 
produce bad breath; doubt, fear and obstinacy, 
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Bright's disease ; suppressed passion, cancer ; and 
that diabetes was produced by foolishness, ear- 
ache by disobedience, eczema by censure ; nausea 
by thought of separation; pneumonia by disap- 
pointment in love or in business and rheumatism 
by fretting, anger or stubbornness. 

The founders of these interpretations were 
grapsing after truth, and they did find a thread 
running through it all, and while these various 
mental states do not produce with regularity any 
certain diseases, the falling of the whole organ- 
ism into wrong chemistry, following upon evil 
mentality, will make impression upon that por- 
tion of the system, which is in the lowest stage 
of resistance. 

Thus far we have been dealing with outbursts 
of wrong mental exercise, constituting, as stated, 
temporary cause and endless effects, but there is 
even a more disastrous mentality that we must 
consider. I refer to morbidness, a constant de- 
pressed mental state, and another, where one 
takes hold of an all-consuming thought, which 
fairly becomes a mania. Now, a man does be- 
come, from his head to his feet, an expression 
of that state in which his soul lives. His coun- 
tenance betokens his innermost thought, and he 
could not conceal it if he would. His only hope 

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is to paint out that picture, and put a true one 
in its place. Then there will be regeneration in 
his body, following upon the regeneration of his 
soul, and he will become a living witness of the 
true and noble thoughts in him. 

Let not even the casual reader depreciate this 
profound truth, that the thought held in the soul 
is lived, and being lived, it will change the con- 
tour and composition of that physical organism 
in which he lives. 

If we can believe anything in history, we must 
believe that which is recorded of the Stigmatics, 
for it is as authentic as any matter that has been 
given us from that period. The nuns desired 
to enter into all the feelings that they believed 
Jesus had experienced. They wanted, what they 
would consider miraculous evidence, that they 
had entered into the fullest experiences of these 
feelings, and they decided that the character of 
that miracle should be that upon each hand and 
foot, and upon the side of the body, there should 
come scars, corresponding to the broken flesh in 
their Savior's body. They entered into the full- 
est belief that that realization would come. They 
meditated upon it day and night, and entered 
into the religious emotions, living under that men- 
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souls that which they wanted to ultimately be 
expressed in their bodies, by looking upon the 
picture of Christ on the cross, thus fulfilling 
every condition of pouring into the soul by sug- 
gestion, when the objective faculties were in 
abeyance. They were under religious ecstacy, in 
which they scarcely stopped for a petition, or a 
prayer, that the changes would come, but their 
faith was so perfect that it amounted to a com- 
mand that those scars appear. They did not go 
into the silence with a spasm of emotion and af- 
firm that the scars were already there, but they 
did take the thought earnestly and profoundly 
into their souls. They not only held the thought, 
but they lived the life, they lived the thought. 
It was not a fit of concentration, but it was en- 
tire consecration, in which there were no lapses 
of devotion to the suggestion. 

They held the picture in their souls of what 
would be the condition when full realization of 
those scars was attained, and those changes in 
the various substances of the body, in all the 
tissues involved in the materialization of that 
picture, were undoubtedly confirmed. Man be- 
comes that, which he believes in his soul he will 
become. In all the histories of all the psycholo- 
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ard of health can find a better formula than that 
given in the history of the Stigmatics. By their 
formula he may attain to his standard of per- 
fection, physically, mentally and spiritually. 

The perfection of faith is essential, and the 
objective mind plants doubt instead of faith, be- 
cause it knows things through the senses, and 
wants that sort of test for everything. It will 
not let the soul prompt through intuition, and 
so we go on casting shadows over our souls and 
defeating the expressions that this supreme power 
over the body desires to make. For that reason 
auto-suggestion as a healing power is not very 
certain, as a rule, for the same reason that it 
becomes necessary for passivity to be entered 
into, and a second person to give the suggestions 
that create the subjective expectancy which per- 
fects the body, the mind and the soul. 

Now if a temporary unwholesome emotion, an 
example of which we have given in the early 
part of this chapter, produces an effect during its 
flash, and becomes such a factor in one's life, 
then it must be true that every spurt of good 
that flashes as freely through one's soul, must 
have a beneficient sequel. Nothing is absolutely 
lost, and so every little appeal that touches the 
soul and causes a fleeting noble feeling and as- 

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piration, may be the means by which the spark 
of good is kept from dying. 

Again, just as giving way to an irritation to- 
day, will make it easier to yield tomorrow, and 
so on until constant, chronic irritability is a habit, 
so will yielding to some tenderness once make 
one more susceptible, and as he becomes more 
susceptible, there are more occasions that appeal 
to him and life becomes practically filled with 
opportunities for doing good and performing 
generous acts. 

This resolves itself to this : It is not to spend 
life fighting the evil in ourselves or the world 
about us, but to see that all the ground is occu- 
pied by a thrifty, healthy growth that carries 
love's fragrance and fills the whole atmosphere 
of life with sweetness and peacefulness. It is not 
killing the weeds, but the cultivation of propitious 
plants. 

This whole subject properly connects itself with 
our first proposition that unhappy emotions pro- 
duce chemical changes, that result in disease; 
and that wholesome emotions, glad emotions, love 
emotions, stimulate the right chemistry, making 
for nutrition, establishing nervous equilibrium, 
soothing the circulation, being a tonic to every 
portion of the body, because every cell is sat- 

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urated through and through with love. 

No one who was in a state of health was ever 
made sick by yielding to the nobler feelings, and 
no one who was sick was ever made worse 
through the excitement of generous impulses. 

Love in all its reaching out is the true thera- 
peutic agent. It heals the giver and the re- 
ceiver. Evil, whatever the form of its expres- 
sion, is infectious and spreads evil. Love is al- 
ways a happy contagion. A few persons being 
thoroughly inoculated with it will create an epi- 
demic. 

Possibly this is not clearly practical yet for 
everyone, all do not know just how, when 
tempted by anger, fear, or jealousy, or the de- 
praved passions, to resist and to master the sit- 
uation. 

Now, I have stated over and over again that 
the soul is the supreme power over all the ten- 
dencies of every phase of man's life. That be- 
ing true, you will need only to know how to get 
action upon that supreme intelligence, and cause 
it to express its mastership. In the first place 
if you have studied the physical demonstrations, 
as shown in the hypnotic study, where the vari- 
ous phenomena, as catalepsy, inhibition of pain, 
etc., are described, then you have conceded, that 

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there is that power in the soul, granting that you 
have laid the foundation for faith in the power, 
that will control the tendencies and the desires. 
You have been impressed that yielding to these 
is disastrous, and you have thought that through 
will power you would overcome. 

This is equivalent to trusting to your objective 
mind, which is the seat of the will, with which 
you are most acquainted, and it is depending 
upon that will, that has brought disaster to every 
man who ever had any occasion to master him- 
self along any certain line. Instead of exercising 
the mind to overcome that deep impression, an 
emotion that you know is wrong, yield up that 
will and say to your soul, "You have the pow- 
er. Your office has been heretofore usurped by 
mind, which has not the function at all, of pre- 
siding over my emotional states, but now, with 
my will, I trust to you to hold in check, to throt- 
tle, and presently to blot out, this evil temper, 
or this insane jealousy, and you shall be the mas- 
ter in my life." 

It is the same old story of becoming as a little 
child and letting that spiritual power, that is 
within the body and is supplied with that office, 
but which is the passive power, manifest itself. 
When I say that it is a passive power, I mean 

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that, so far as mind is concerned, it must cease 
its violent effort and give way to the soul, which 
is ever ready, to perform its function. 

I cannot make this any more plain or prac- 
tical, except that if necessary, and there are cer- 
tainly no objections to doing so, you enter into 
that relaxation of body and passivity of mind 
and receive suggestions from a second party 
that you will not be mastered and enslaved by 
the human tendencies, but, that those things that 
have aroused you, in an unwholesome way, you 
will behold with calmness and control. 

Again I say it is not the domination of the 
will of the suggestor over that of the one re- 
ceiving the suggestions, but in reality, it is bring- 
ing one in touch with and under the right laws 
that enable that supreme will — that of the soul — 
to prevail, causing a co-operation of both the ob- 
jective and subjective wills. This gives one a 
moral strength, which, in proportion to the sol- 
itary will of the objective is, as the physical vol- 
untary power to the power that is manifested in 
what we usually call the involuntary of the phys- 
ical. 

It is of common observation to have seen 
how that when the involuntary systems are 
utilized, seeming superhuman feats are enacted. 

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As in catalepsy, in which the body of the sub- 
ject is suspended with the body, having no sup- 
port save at the head and heels, which rest upon 
supports, and six hundred pounds additional to 
the subject's weight is placed upon his body. I 
do not commend this weight experiment at all, 
and I would not make it, but I have seen it dem- 
onstrated. 

Again, in cases of insanity, where the objective 
functions were all in abeyance and the involun- 
tary ones presiding, seven men hardly equal in 
physical power, the one individual. 

It is needless to multiply these illustrations, for 
wherever you see an application of the involun- 
tary (so-called) forces, they seem superhuman, 
as compared with the ordinary. This is just as 
true in mental or spiritual departments as in the 
physical, and while there is an office for the ob- 
jective mind and all its faculties, the great factor, 
although so sadly neglected, is the soul, that 
power which, when brought into practical control, 
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CHAPTER XIV. 
Chemistry and Psychology of Love 

Chemistry is the science that deals with the 
composition of matter. Psychology is the science 
of the soul, and our object being the chemistry 
and psychology of love, we will study the rela- 
tionship of the composition of the body and the 
soul acting upon it through love. 

Magnetism will be the first department of our 
subject that I want to consider scientifically. 
When a piece of iron or steel is placed in a mag- 
netic field of a dynamo, a peculiar polarization 
takes place, by which one extremity of the metal 
will attract positive and the other negative, be- 
cause those ends become negative and positive. 
Each molecule of the metal seems to become so 
polarized, and the positives all pointing in the 
same direction, constitute the peculiarity of the 
magnet. All matter has electricity in some state 
or stage within it, and for that reason everybody 
attracts every other body, the positive in one at- 
tracting the negative in the other. These are the 
usual expressions, but what really takes place is 
this, under the law of the universe that every- 
thing that is possessed of something that is good 
is making an effort to impart its beneficent quali- 

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ties to every recpetive and responsive member of 
the universe. Upon this principle, when a piece 
of iron is brought into proximity with a magnet, 
which, owing to its properties, is at a certain 
vibratory rate, it fulfills its law of imparting its 
wave lengths and speed to the unmagnetized iron. 
Under this process the latter also becomes a 
magnet. 

When two individuals, such as a young gentle- 
man and a young lady, come into proximity to 
each other, they may find a very pleasurable 
thrilling sensation pass over them. 

Each one takes the self-suggestion down into 
his own soul that that is love's thrill, and the 
next step is to suggest each to the other that 
love is the correct interpretation of their feel- 
ings. Further association and limited separation 
intensifies all of those feelings that were more 
or less intense, when they first looked into each 
other's eyes or clasped hands. The cultivation of 
the idea and the excitement of the body pro- 
ceeds more or less rapidly, somewhat according 
to the temperament, caution, or experience of one 
or both of the individuals. 

The fate of the unsophisticated is to become 
entirely enveloped in the wildest flames of which 
the body is capable. When this stage is reached, 

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they are so overwhelmed by their feelings that 
they cannot consider the subject of mental or 
spiritual adaptation, agreement of nationality, or 
planes of their families. They have decided that 
they are in love, and that settles every question 
for them. 

What has actually taken place is that in their 
first discovery of pleasure in each other's pres- 
ence or contact, they electrically affected each 
other. The positive in one attracted the nega- 
tive in the other, under the laws of the magnet, 
each seeking to impart the qualities to the other 
that he or she had electrically, and producing a 
very pleasurable sensation, purely magnetic and 
chemical, under the laws of physical magnetism 
and chemical affinity. The danger of the situ- 
ation was in their mistaken interpretation as to 
the source of their glad feeling. After once 
suggesting each to himself and to each other 
that that is love, soul, which is suggestible and 
controls all the chemistry and other forces of the 
body, would, in answer to the suggestion, pro- 
ceed to make the bodies more intense, creating 
every molecule and cell in one body with such 
a chemical and electrical state that would compel 
answer through the corresponding molecule and 
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comparison for the state of these two bodies, each 
demanding the other. Of course, this scientific 
revelation will take the romance out of the great 
majority of mating experiences, but in its ulti- 
mate result will make love more beautiful than 
it has ever appeared before, and love will be 
sought for, hoped for, aspired to, and more fre- 
quently found and its immortality recognized. 

As an actual fact, the cat and some other ani- 
mals enjoy the contact and stroke, because of 
their magnetic discharge, when the hand ap- 
proaches. The law by which many bodies under- 
go electrical interchanges imparting pleasure 
holds in all of those instances where there is 
given to one a supply of the element which it 
needs or draws from it an excess. The danger 
is not in the magnetic exchange that might take 
place between two persons, or among a number, 
but in the interpretation of the sensation to be 
the characteristic of love; it is the first sugges- 
tion I spoke of, not the contact. 

If a woman and man realized they were at- 
tracted to each other by the most common force, 
which is present in all matter, they would hardly 
come to the conclusion that that was love in 
any true sense, capable of uniting the masculine 
and feminine spirits. It would occur to them 

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that a union of soul would scarcely begin in the 
chemistry of the body. Their logic would hardly 
lead them to determine that electrical discharges 
would develop into the harmonies of unifying 
love. Some practical reminders follow when 
they have misinterpreted the attraction, that be- 
gins in the physical and continues in the physical 
until every cell is in agony of unrest dependent 
upon the imparting from the other's body that 
which would give poise or balance to the physical 
forces. The suggestible souls under the halluci- 
nation of love cause the mind such bewilderment 
that finally the contract is entered into, in which 
they promise to fulfill that union which was, 
as they think, intended from the beginning of 
creation, and will last throughout all eternity. 
They are fully satisfied that the proof is adequate 
in the pleasure they have felt in their association. 
The suggestions now begin, which are the 
reverse of those taken and exchanged in the 
early days of attraction. No longer is there the 
thrill of embrace or the kiss,, then the one or the 
other makes the first declaration that love never 
existed. The opposite one accepts that sugges- 
tion, his body responds to it, and they proceed 
to build their chemistry and their magnetism ac- 
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their mental and spiritual unfitness for each other, 
and, being perfectly ignorant of the basis of their 
first attraction, they must wonder why it has 
changed into repulsion. 

I would have no confidence in what was said 
to be love, that began in intense physical excite- 
ment. If beginning in the senses and carrying 
the delusion of love to the soul is not the right 
order, then what should be the natural force 
and origin of love? In studying the attributes 
of the soul we find among its native qualities, 
love. The recognition upon the part of two 
such persons is not dependent upon sense percep- 
tion in any way. They would love and know 
that they loved, even if all the objective senses 
were in abeyance or lost. Like other physical 
perceptions, its description is practically impossi- 
ble. When I speak of psychic colors, the term 
has no meaning unless one has experienced 
psychic colors. It is therefore not probable that 
anyone can convey to another the exact methods 
of discernment, as to what love will be like when 
they find it. However, since it is to spring out of 
the soul, one needs not to be educated objectively 
concerning it, or be looking for its signs. One 
thing is certain, the symptoms of wild physical 
excitement and attraction are not the evidence 

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that one should either look for or take as proof 
they have found the right one. Since love has 
its origin in the soul and union first takes place 
there involuntarily, and as soul is controller and 
even creator of the body, certainly all the body 
in its chemistry, as well as all other forces, pass 
under the influence of the soul's love, and entire 
union is the normal result. That is the union 
which physical laws or spiritual laws can never 
divorce. This love solves every problem, an- 
swers every possible question as to how to be 
happy though married; how to manage all the 
affairs of daily life, companionably, not competi- 
tively. I have named this last state as the state 
of love. I will leave you to name what I de- 
scribed before, which is at best only a travesty, 
but is so usual that I will indicate how to make 
the best of it. 

There are charlatans in almost every city that 
are getting rich through advertising to separate 
the united and unite the separated. The demand 
for their services is said to be increasing. Very 
often where the charlatan fails, the individual 
takes the matter into his own hands to make the 
change. All of these things, as well as the di- 
vorce courts, prove that the basis of union was 
under chemical, magnetic and other physical 

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forces. If union has taken place, even under 
mistake, or even where the parents would seem 
to have made a good sale of the daughter in 
securing for her a rich husband, still she was a 
party to the mistake, and there must be an ad- 
justment of these situations. Marriages that 
took place under the physical laws satisfied the 
individuals at first; they remained satisfied until 
physical repulsion under satisfied chemistry and 
magnetism took place, and then they began to 
suggest to each other that love was dying. Every 
word of this book proves that the soul is abso- 
lute over all that the individual is, and is con- 
trollable by suggestion through the will of the 
individual. Under this law, then, if all such 
people knew that they could maintain the attrac- 
tion between them, instead of exchanging the 
suggestion of getting further apart, they would 
by all the powers of their wills drive into their 
souls the suggestion of co-operation and of union, 
and under the creative law of the soul, each 
would actually, by changes made, convert the 
other into his ideal. This, of course, would re- 
quire their mutual co-operation. Neither the one 
or the other could compel the union to be at- 
tained. Any husband and wife that know these 
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stated here without limitation, that the soul of 
the individual is superior to all that individual is, 
and the reason I have often referred to its crea- 
tive power is to impress upon you that regenera- 
tion of the body, and even of the character, can 
be accomplished through its power and law. 

A harmonious and happy union can be realized 
by applying the principle of the New Psychology, 
even though the husband and wife, united under 
mistaken ideas, under wrong planetary condi- 
tion, and temperaments inharmonious to each 
other, and even though they inherit tendencies 
that tend to separate them. All of these con- 
ditions can be met, I say, and a happy union 
made by following these teachings. 

The value of the love a man gives to woman, 
"a gift treasured more highly than life in the 
body/' has been given into the keeping of woman 
by man. She, recognizing the sacredness of the 
gift, places it immediately into the sanctuary of 
her soul, where a shrine has been prepared and 
held in readiness for it. 

"What is so unearthly, so beautiful, as the 
first birth of a woman's love? The air of heaven 
is not purer in its wanderings, its sunshine not 
more holy in its warmth." 

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truth is to open the way to appreciate all beauti- 
ful, true and gracious souls, and to recognize 
spiritual beauty, wherever it is seen. 



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CHAPTER XV. 

The Third Degree 

"The Third Degree" is the title of a book 
written by Charles Klein, based upon certain 
psychological principles. The book and its 
dramatization makes a true principle very im- 
pressive, and I would be glad if it were known 
universally. 

Preparatory to understanding this principle, I 
need to remind you of certain laws of sugges- 
tion. Hpynosis is a typical state in which to 
impress suggestions. Just how controllable an 
individual is, under hypnotic suggestion, is given 
in many places in my writings, therefore I will 
not repeat it here. In this lesson we do not 
have occasion to deal with hypnosis, except to 
refer to it as the well-known state in which one 
is controlled by the suggestions given him, if he 
accept them. 

When one is in an emotional state, he is found 
to be just as susceptible to suggestion as he is 
in the hypnotic; he is susceptible to suggestions 
that do not in any way pertain to the thing that 
causes the emotion. 

In "The Third Degree" story, Howard Jeffries 
is the important character. He, the son of a 

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great capitalist, lost his class through marrying 
a poor, respectable girl whose parents were not 
known to society. When Jeffries got into his 
worst financial cramp, which came quickly with 
his dissipation, he went to a former school com- 
panion for the purpose of collecting two hun- 
dred and fifty dollars he had loaned him, and 
also to borrow a large sum. His friend gave 
him so much liquor that he became intoxicated 
and went to sleep on the couch in his friend's 
room. When another visitor arrived Jeffries 
thought he heard voices, but was not sure. At 
any rate he slept on for several hours and did 
not know why he had awakened with such a 
start. Finally coming to himself he began to 
move about, when he stumbled upon the body 
of a man. Placing his hand on the man's face 
he was horrified to find it covered with blood. 
He finally recognized his friend and realized 
that he was dead. He decided he should get out 
of the room quickly, but he had hardly gotten to 
the door when his friend's attendant returned. 
The latter, discovering his employer's dead body, 
would not let Jeffries escape, but called the police 
at once. 

The young man had committed suicide, firing 
the bullet into his head. The discharge had 

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startled Jeffries, but he had not been conscious 
of what it was. 

Captain Clinton and his men arriving, they 
promptly took charge of Jeffries, accusing him 
of murder. The coroner was assured by the 
police that Jeffries was guilty and passed over 
the matter quickly, leaving the accused with the 
officers. A confession being essential to an 
easy conviction, the captain made up his mind 
to get it. 

After six hours of torture, almost past endur- 
ance, the youth still denied the crime. Positive 
declaration by Captain Clinton was reiterated a 
hundred times, telling Jeffries how he had come 
to borrow and collect money; that he had been 
refused and a quarrel had ensued; that he and 
the college mate had had trouble over a love 
affair at college; literally picturing to him how 
he had used the pistol which he, the captain, had 
in his hand at the time, and had shot him and, 
getting blood on his hands, was running away. 
He assured him that electrocution was certain. 
After terrible hours of intense strain and emo- 
tion, Jeffries finally believed what was suggested 
to him and he repeated the words of confession 
after the police captain. He signed this, and 

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they marked it, the free will confession of How- 
ard Jeffries. 

The process of obtaining this is what is known 
as the third degree, supposed to be practiced in 
connection with courts and criminals, but the 
principle of the third degree is practiced so uni- 
versally that the affairs of courts are of little 
importance, comparatively. 

I want to discriminate between the results of 
this form of practice that obtains confession, 
through convincing the accused of his guilt, and 
that same torture that causes the individual to 
make the confession in order to end the imme- 
diate suffering, not believing himself guilty. 
Then this defines the principle of the third de- 
gree from the psychological standpoint. Let us 
reduce it to simple words: the third degree 
principle is applied in any instance where one 
who is in a suggestible state is made to believe 
himself to be that which he is not. 

The emotion of anger, fear, jealousy, grief, or 
other emotion creates a suggestible state. What 
one is caused^ to believe at that time compels the 
subsequent actions consistent with the belief. 
The parent who has a child in a state of grief 
or anger, or other emotion, and tells him that he 
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wrong, soon will have the child thinking that 
he is bad. For this he is told he is absolutely 
vicious, perhaps having no good in him. He 
deteriorates progressively, because under the 
principle of the third degree, he is made to think 
that he is willfully worse than he is. 

I have known people who really have had the 
highest purpose, but through their motives be- 
ing impugned, have come to doubt their own 
goodness, and ultimately to have even become 
thoroughly disgusted with themselves and self- 
condemning as well. This is the operation in the 
daily life of the third degree. I have known the 
wife to work herself into such terrible emotional 
states in which she would reiterate charges and 
accusations until her husband would think him- 
self the culprit she declares him to be. When 
they would kiss and make up, the one thing not 
repaired was the damage worked by the third 
degree process, that made him believe that he 
was worse than he really was. 

I know one wife that has for more than fif- 
teen years had sessions with her husband on an 
average of at least one night a week, when he, 
without any cause whatsoever, abuses her most 
terrifically by word accusations. The wicked 
character of his charges has no limit nor any 

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foundation. This, from time to him, he ac- 
knowledges, yet any moment he is liable to start 
his third degree court. He has told her hun- 
dreds of times when he had her weeping under 
hopeless agony, that she was to blame from the 
first and all the time for their unhappiness. 
Way into the morning, not six, but ten hours at 
a time has he worked his formula of wicked 
suggestions until she not only confesses and con- 
demns herself, but believes what the miserable 
captain of her prison says. She is a woman nat- 
urally of strong mind and beautiful character, 
yet has been subjected to these scenes (worked 
always to the climax of confession or complete 
exhaustion on her part) until she looks uneasy 
and afraid. Sometimes she seems to feel that oth- 
ers know, and therefore condemn her. Divorce 
should have followed the first session of this 
man's court. Such men do not aspire to ever 
change. 

Men and women are sending each other into 
insanity through the power of suggestion, under 
the principle of the third degree. They make 
each think that he is worse than he is, and in 
that idea there is the design which he will incline 
to fulfill. 

There is known to be a wholesale working of 

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the third degree principle in political and other 
meetings, where people, because they are in an 
emotional state, obey suggestions. In revival 
meetings of the ancient sort the exhorter would 
get his audience all excited over deathbed stories, 
followed by the depicted gnashing of teeth and 
eternal fire, unquenchable. At the height of 
this excitement the people were told they were 
vile worms of the dust; helpless but wicked sin- 
ners ; that they must flee from the wrath to come 
by the mourners' bench route, confessing their 
absolute sinfulness, black through and through. 
They did not sign their confession, like Howard 
Jeffries did, but they testified before many wit- 
nesses ; they acted under the third degree prin- 
ciple of suggestion. Look over your life, my 
friend, and see if you are either the victim of 
this principle, or one who uses it on another — 
clear your life of it, do not paint any one worse 
than he is, or even as bad. Judge not at all; 
and be sure that you never listen, while in the 
emotional state, to any depreciating words con- 
cerning yourself. 

Have we not found in this subject a most 
terrific force? Yes, so great a force that you 
can take the most innocent creature, innocent 
not only of the particular thing, but beautiful 

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and pure, and by reiteration of a suggestion, 
when the individual is under fear or other emo- 
tion, convince him or her of guilt even of a 
heinous crime. 

However, true to my consecration, I sought for 
an optimistic view of the terrific principle, that 
to the unseeing looks to be only evil. There is 
no evil force in the universe ; every force, funda- 
mentally and in its normality, is good. 

Look at the principle of the third degree, and 
let us see if it is possessed of any good. What is 
the principle? It is to take an individual when 
he is in a state of suggestibility, place a picture 
in his mind so forcefully, a picture of himself as 
something which he really is not, and through 
suggestion make him believe that it is he. It 
has been shown only as an evil principle; I de- 
clare it is an all good power but has been evilly 
applied; and is a misdirected power, just as we 
may misdirect all of our deific powers and make 
them appear to be evil and destructive. 

Picture to a man, woman or child, when he is 
in a suggestible state, a better individual than he 
has been objectively; make him believe that in his 
soul he is really better than he objectively is, 
then he will, under reiterated suggestion, fulfill 
that picture. When he fulfills it, what does he 

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prove — that you falsified and deceived him ? No, 
he proves by his fulfillment that in reality and 
potentially he was all you suggested. After you 
had suggested it, he believed himself that thing 
demonstrated it. O when will we make this an 
abiding knowledge: that before every form and 
fact there must proceed an image, an idea? 
When we do, we will drive into our souls, under 
the third degree law, a picture, a concept of our 
better self, to which we will at once make ascent. 
Use this intense force to bring out the truth in 
everyone and in yourself. 

Holding the ideal faithfully in the conscious 
mind is the normal use of the third degree prin- 
ciple that ultimately causes the real to meet the 
appointments of the ideal. Presenting to others 
forcefully and confidently a picture of the ideal 
for them to fulfill, causes them to grow to that 
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CHAPTER XVI. 
The Measure of a Man 

There is an ideal which is to the individual 
an image of what he could be and that he knows 
he should be. He occasionally has conscious 
views of this, and it includes his ideal body in its 
development, form and health; his ideal intel- 
lectual power and ideal character. He knows 
that in his program of life in its activities, his 
service should be such that, incidental to that 
program, he would realize his ideals. 

With realization of the ideal as the destination, 
should we not deal with this journey just as we 
would with other contemplated, though shorter, 
journeys? 

Since the ideal exists, there is presumptive evi- 
dence that it could be realized ; yet everyone con- 
fesses he has not arrived at completness. It does 
not require a Marcus Aurelius to declare that if 
man does not reach his proper destination it is 
because of his principles, not because of insur- 
mountable obstacles ; any observer must see that. 

But in taking account of the hindrances along 
this journey we do not have to note a great 
catalogue of mistaken principles, for there is one 
that is primary and all others grow out of that : 

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That which makes an individual's real less 
this his ideal is his principle of substitution of the 
artificial for the natural. 

Innately that Builder of the man, his own Soul, 
exacts truth, and when the man with his volition 
attempts to force untrue standards upon this 
executive supreme building power, the resulting 
confusion stultifies the Soul because the very law 
of its expression is harmony and truth. Let us 
examine the psychology of one's falling short of 
the measure of a man because of the substitution 
of the artificial for the natural. 

We will take the physical side of the principle 
first. We can begin with the infant, for even 
there we commence to take away the natural 
powers by giving a sufficiency of predigested, 
prepared imitations of natural food, and some- 
times, after much rebellion upon the part of 
nature, it tolerates the falsity and ceases to make 
any natural effort to treat the substances intro- 
duced into the child's stomach or to resist. Such 
a child we soon classify as one with "weak di- 
gestive organs," always to be pampered and sub- 
ject to frequent upsets. Unnatural food and an 
unnatural preparation of it causing bad nutri- 
tion, the result is, the child having a poor quality 
of blood which calls for the introduction of min- 

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eral or other elements by substitution. The nerv- 
our system showing the lack of tone, and sleep 
not being normal, drugs are resorted to for 
stimulation, and again for sedation, so the whole 
physical being is upon an artificial basis with 
nature relieved of all of its functions. 

No one would deny the lack of the ideal body, 
neither could one doubt that the cause is in sub- 
stituting the unreal instead of permitting nature 
to produce the real things needed. I will say 
here that what we have called nature, and some- 
times the vital force, is really an intelligence — 
the supreme but suggestible subconsciousness of 
Soul. It quickly accepts the suggestion of re- 
pression and says to the will of the conscious 
mind: "Substitute an artificial and I will cease 
altogether to produce the natural/' 

Instead of the infant, let us consider an adult, 
still from the physical side, and also begin with 
digestion. Through wrong practices of some 
sort, food is not digested, and the physician says 
there is not enough pepsin, so he gives him 
pepsin made in the pig's stomach. The subcon- 
scious mind at once interprets that the volition 
has chosen an exterior source for the pepsin and 
quits secreting. Again upon test it is declared 
that all of the gastric secretions are deficient or 

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abnormal, so the whole product taken from a 
dog's stomach is given to the man, and then all 
the glands of the stomach cease to secrete. 

Surely this much of the individual any one will 
grant is short of the ideal, and the cause lies 
in the substitution that repressed the soul in its 
exercise of that part of the body. Practically 
every function of the body has been dealt with 
upon the same principle. Glasses are put on the 
eyes to take the place of perfect eyes. Hair col- 
oring is substituted for nature's colors, and the 
wig to take the place of hair, the woman con- 
gratulating herself that when she reaches a cer- 
tain age she can paint a little heavier and use 
peroxide as a substitute for nature's tints and 
colors. She pads, or she pinches, or wears sup- 
ports, and yet every time and in every way she 
substitutes, nature seems to become more im- 
potent, and finally gives up. 

Practically all the vices or bad habits of people 
come from the source of which we are speaking. 
An effort to substitute a false stimulant for a 
natural one is in using tobacco or liquor. In 
some of these instances, as well as in drug habits, 
the cause was in some previous form of substitu- 
tion that had set up a wrong craving, on the 
principle that one false stimulant calls for an- 

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other with an ever-increasing insatiable appetite 
and deplorable degeneracy. These things are 
like falsehoods, which, when one is told, there 
is need of a score of others to explain that one, 
where silence or truth would have proved saving. 

However, the human disaster where there is 
the practice of substitution does not end with a 
diseased, deformed and deficient body. The fact 
is, it is not a power of the body, a chemical or- 
ganization, to elect or select or perceive any- 
thing. This substitution has been an act of the 
will or mind upon the body, therefore, mind 
may fix its mental or intellectual standards to be 
expressed through the mind as well as upon 
the body. Observation discloses that pretending, 
false standards as to intellectual power or mental 
perception obtain where there are these substi- 
tutions in the body. It becomes impossible to 
discern the truth, and yet, like the intoxicated 
man who thinks every one else is drunk while he 
is perfectly upright, the substitutionist feels his 
fidelity in his falsity. 

But the far-reaching effect of substitution of 
the false for the true, though it first begins its 
action in the body, does not end with physical 
and mental effects, but includes the spiritual 
being. Nothing could be more impossible than 

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for one to play all of these false parts upon the 
body and have false standards intellectually and 
yet have truth, or ideal character. 

Look at this situation and see if you do not 
recognize much of mankind. Here is one who 
substitutes artificial foods for the real — predi- 
gested instead of digesting them for himself; 
substituting all gastric secretions — not creating 
them, hence false to him; substituting iron (from 
nail rust) in his blood instead of producing it 
through his own organism from natural food; 
substituting medicine or stimulants for health; 
substituting memorized contents of books for 
thought-out conclusions, and even pretending as 
to the extent of his book knowledge. You say 
that is enough, that you recognize your neighbor. 
It is not enough until you see that with such 
imagery and such physical degeneracy that one 
would, as sure as effect follows cause, put all 
blame for everything that occurs in his life upon 
some one or something else outside of himself — 
to be consistent he must do that, for he is com- 
pelled to put the false in place of the real. 

One thing more I must call your attention to 
is that, if in every other phase, substitution is 
his principle, so must it be of his religion. He 
would accept sacrifice of the innocent for his 

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guilt, he would have a scapegoat, he would get 
into heaven through vicarious atonement and 
never through natural attainment of his ideal 
through growth. 

I have gone over this course, whose destina- 
tion is a man far short of his glory ; an inglorious 
failure as compared with his promise, his proph- 
ecy or his possibility. Forgive him we must, 
condemn him we cannot. Nine hundred and 
ninety-nine times out of a thousand he is not 
wanted — his arrival is an accident which had its 
source in the parents trying, though failing, to 
substitute a false and momentary pleasure for 
an everlasting one. With heredity that gave 
him false impulse, and his first training being 
to employ everything to defeat and repress na- 
ture, he is justified in being the result he is until 
knowledge is revealed to him. 

Let us, then, go over the ground again and 
see if we cannot become very optimistic upon 
this subject. An infant should not be given 
anything in a form to repress or relieve nature 
from proper activity. Food adapted to the child 
and given to it by parent or nurse with the as- 
surance that nature will be stimulated to treat 
the food successfully, will get the desired result. 
The expectancy of parent or nurse is the law 

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over an infant; it is perfectly led or overwhelmed 
by their mental attitudes. 

An adult should never receive pepsin or other 
gastric secretion in substitution for his own. He 
should receive a well-mixed dietary with sug- 
gestions that he will create in his own stomach 
all the chemicals essential to his digestion. 

If you ask for a reasonable basis of the above, 
as well as for my assurance that clinical practice 
demonstrates it to be all-sufficient, then I will 
tell you that medical pepsin is obtained by letting 
the pigs get hungry, and then making them think 
that they are going to be fed. They are killed, 
and their stomachs, when immediately opened, 
yield a great supply of pepsin secreted because 
of expectancy. All the gastric juices are to be 
obtained from the dog that has been looking at 
the meat which he does not get. All of my 
patients with indigestion have shown to possess 
minds equal to the animals mentioned, and 
through this observation I have been led to have 
hope for the race. 

There are many people who should put on 
glasses, not to take the place of good natural 
sight or strength, but to wear for a while to train 
the eyes out of a necessity for the glasses. With 
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would be very rarely necessary to put them on 
to wear the rest of the life, as is a common 
custom. Suspensories might occasionally have 
a temporary use upon the principle of training 
back to strength. Medicines may serve some 
place, sometimes, to aid nature, but not to take 
the place of something nature should do. 

The woman who fixes her standard at paint, 
peroxide, padding and penciling, practices a 
substitution that entirely represses nature, where- 
as a mental attitude that is commanding and 
expectant will enable nature to supply nutrition 
and normal color to her cheeks and hair, and a 
happy mental state will take away the deepest 
wrinkles care ever created. 

Now for the psychology of the whole subject. 
It is as though every man had millions of eyes 
watching him and every eye belonged to an 
individual who attended to a part of the man's 
affairs, and the sum total of these watchful indi- 
viduals executed everything of every nature in 
the life of the man; that they watched and dis- 
cerned what the man voluntarily did toward his 
fellow man and what he thought of himself — 
that is, they saw all of the imagery of his mind, 
and what they saw was his predominating 
thought, which theo r interpreted as his princi- 

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pies, that became the law of action in their 
execution. Now these intelligent individuals 
with their all-seeing eyes are the servants or 
agents of expression of the man, the cells that 
physically comprise his body yet serve in doing 
all of the functions of the body. 

Let the man choose an artificial substitution 
for a natural one and his cells serve him con- 
sistently, withdrawing a real function; let the 
man will to be noble, generous and loyal and 
the cells will be full of life and energy and 
serve faithfully, with a result of ultimate good 
health and mental efficiency. 

In other words, our arrival at that destina- 
tion spoken of in the opening paragraph is de- 
pendent upon our standards, whether they are 
expression or repression, destructive or construc- 
tive; these standards are our Auto-Suggestions, 
they are our principles. I am quite certain with 
the view before us that our substitution of the 
artificial for the natural is a principle that has 
hindered the attainment of the full measure of 
a man, we will radically cut off from the untrue 
and embrace and hold fast to that which is the 
real. 



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